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Employee Retention Credit
12 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Employee Retention Credit [Abstract]  
Employee Retention Credit

22. Employee Retention Credit



The CARES Act provides an employee retention credit (“ERC”) that is a refundable tax credit against certain employer taxes. On December 27, 2020, Congress enacted the Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2020, which amended and extended ERC availability under Section 2301 of the CARES Act. As a result, the Company was eligible to claim a refundable tax credit against the employer share of Social Security taxes equal to seventy percent (70%) of the qualified wages that it paid to its employees between December 31, 2020 and June 30, 2021. Qualified wages are limited to $10,000 per employee per calendar quarter in 2021 for a maximum ERC per employee of $7,000 per calendar quarter in 2021.



In the fourth quarter of the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022, the Company amended certain payroll tax filings and applied for a refund of $5,104,000. As of March 31, 2023, the Company determined that all contingencies related to the ERC were resolved and recorded a $5,104,000 receivable which is included in prepaid expenses and other current assets in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet. The $5,104,000 of ERCs were recognized as a reduction in employer payroll taxes and allocated to the financial statement captions from which the employee’s taxes were originally incurred. As a result, the Company recorded a reduction in expenses of $2,034,000 in cost of goods sold, $1,377,000 in general and administrative, $968,000 in selling and marketing, and $725,000 in research and development, which is reflected in the accompanying consolidated statement of operations for the year ended March 31, 2023. In April 2023, the Company received full payment for the ERC receivable.



The refund of employer taxes results in a decrease in deductions included in the Company’s US federal and certain state income tax returns for the years that it received the payroll tax credits. The Company is required to amend its US federal and state income tax returns for the years ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 and pay additional income tax for those years. The Company has estimated that this will result in approximately $1,250,000 of taxes payable, which is included in other current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet at March 31, 2023 and income tax expense in the consolidated statements of operations for the year ended March 31, 2023.