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Income Taxes | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 27, 2023
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract] |
Income Taxes | Income Taxes The provisions for (benefits from) income taxes were as follows:
| Fiscal Year Ended
| December 27, 2023 |  | December 28, 2022 |  | December 29, 2021
| (In thousands)
Current: |  |  |  |  |
Federal | $ | 4,649 |  |  | $ | 6,128 |  |  | $ | 12,997 |
State and local | 2,409 |  |  | 2,160 |  |  | 3,105 |
Foreign | 1,433 |  |  | 1,152 |  |  | 862 |
Deferred: |  |  |  |  |
Federal | (1,876) |  |  | 11,043 |  |  | 6,826 |
State and local | 173 |  |  | 3,689 |  |  | 7,271 |
Increase (decrease) of valuation allowance | 205 |  |  | 546 |  |  | (5,031) |
Total provision for income taxes | $ | 6,993 |  |  | $ | 24,718 |  |  | $ | 26,030 |
The reconciliation of income taxes at the U.S. federal statutory tax rate to our effective tax rate was as follows:
| December 27, 2023 |  | December 28, 2022 |  | December 29, 2021
Statutory provision rate | 21 | % |  | 21 | % |  | 21 | %
State and local taxes, net of federal income tax benefit | 6 |  |  | 5 |  |  | 5 |
Foreign taxes | 5 |  |  | 1 |  |  | — |
Change in state valuation allowance | 1 |  |  | — |  |  | (1) |
General business credits generated | (5) |  |  | (1) |  |  | (2) |
Foreign tax credits generated | (5) |  |  | (1) |  |  | 1 |
Section 162(m) and share-based compensation | 7 |  |  | — |  |  | 1 |
Insurance premiums | (2) |  |  | — |  |  | — |
Other | (2) |  |  | — |  |  | — |
Effective tax rate | 26 | % |  | 25 | % |  | 25 | %
For 2023, the difference in the overall effective rate from the U.S. statutory rate was primarily due to state and foreign taxes, partially offset by the generation of employment and foreign tax credits. The 2023 rate was also impacted by $1.9 million of disallowed compensation deductions. For 2022, the difference in the overall effective rate from the U.S. statutory rate was primarily due to state and foreign taxes, partially offset by the generation of employment and foreign tax credits. For 2021, the difference in the overall effective rate from the U.S. statutory rate was primarily due to state and foreign taxes and the generation of employment credits. The 2021 rate was also impacted by $1.3 million of disallowed compensation deductions. On March 27, 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”) was signed into law as a response to the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result of the CARES Act, during 2021 the Company carried back 2020’s net operating loss to years 2015 and forward, to obtain $1.5 million in federal income tax refunds. See Note 16 for a discussion of other items related to the CARES Act. The following table represents the approximate tax effect of each significant type of temporary difference that resulted in deferred income tax assets or liabilities.
| December 27, 2023 |  | December 28, 2022
| (In thousands)
Deferred tax assets: |  |  |
Self-insurance accruals | $ | 2,536 |  |  | $ | 2,094 |
Finance lease liabilities | 1,119 |  |  | 1,230 |
Operating lease liabilities | 30,445 |  |  | 33,028 |
Accrued exit costs | 5 |  |  | 21 |
Pension, other retirement and compensation plans | 7,127 |  |  | 11,239 |
Deferred income | 4,617 |  |  | 4,396 |
Other accruals | 478 |  |  | 918 |
General business and foreign tax credit carryforwards - state and federal | 3,472 |  |  | 2,387 |
Net operating loss carryforwards - state | 848 |  |  | 1,157 |
Total deferred tax assets before valuation allowance | 50,647 |  |  | 56,470 |
Less: valuation allowance | (2,943) |  |  | (2,738) |
Total deferred tax assets | 47,704 |  |  | 53,732 |
Deferred tax liabilities: |  |  |
Intangible assets | (15,044) |  |  | (15,706) |
Contract assets | (1,460) |  |  | (1,360) |
Deferred finance costs | (181) |  |  | (250) |
Operating lease right-of-use assets | (27,307) |  |  | (29,822) |
Fixed assets | (8,074) |  |  | (9,291) |
Interest rate swaps | (2,220) |  |  | (4,722) |
Total deferred tax liabilities | (54,286) |  |  | (61,151) |
Net deferred tax liabilities | $ | (6,582) |  |  | $ | (7,419) |
The Company’s state net operating loss tax asset of $0.8 million includes $0.6 million related to Pennsylvania and South Carolina. Of the $2.9 million valuation allowance, $0.4 million relates to Pennsylvania and South Carolina net operating loss carryforwards, $1.0 million relates to California enterprise zone credits and $1.5 million relates to foreign tax credit carryforwards, all of which may never be utilized, prior to their expiration. It is more likely than not that we will be able to utilize all of our existing temporary differences and most of our remaining state tax net operating losses and state credit tax carryforwards, net of existing valuation allowance, prior to their expiration. The following table provides a reconciliation of the beginning and ending amount of unrecognized tax benefits:
| December 27, 2023 |  | December 28, 2022
| (In thousands)
Balance, beginning of year | $ | 869 |  |  | $ | 1,047 |
Decreases related to prior year tax positions | (424) |  |  | (178) |
Balance, end of year | $ | 445 |  |  | $ | 869 |
There was no interest expense associated with unrecognized tax benefits for the years ended December 27, 2023 and December 28, 2022. We file income tax returns in the U.S. federal jurisdictions and various state jurisdictions. With few exceptions, we are no longer subject to U.S. federal, state and local, or non-U.S. income tax examinations by tax authorities for years before 2020. We remain subject to examination for U.S. federal taxes from 2020 onward, and in the following major state jurisdictions: California (2018 onward), Florida (2020 onward) and Texas (2019 onward).

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