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Income taxes (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2017

Income Taxes Tables

Reconciliations of income taxes

		2017				2016
Statutory tax rate		34%				34%
Expected tax benefit		$	(280,000	)		$	(129,000	)
Nondeductible expenses			0				101,000
Benefit of losses not recognized			280,000				28,000
Tax provision (benefit) as reported		$	0			$	0

Components of our deferred tax asset

The components of deferred income taxes at December 31, are as follows:
		2017				2016
Deferred tax assets:
Loss carry-forwards		$	2,065,000			$	2,960,000
Valuation allowance			(2,065,000	)			(2,960,000	)
Net deferred taxes		$	0			$	0

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Tabular disclosure of the components of income tax expense attributable to continuing operations for each year presented including, but not limited to: current tax expense (benefit), deferred tax expense (benefit), investment tax credits, government grants, the benefits of operating loss carryforwards, tax expense that results from allocating certain tax benefits either directly to contributed capital or to reduce goodwill or other noncurrent intangible assets of an acquired entity, adjustments of a deferred tax liability or asset for enacted changes in tax laws or rates or a change in the tax status of the entity, and adjustments of the beginning-of-the-year balances of a valuation allowance because of a change in circumstances that causes a change in judgment about the realizability of the related deferred tax asset in future years.

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Tabular disclosure of the reconciliation using percentage or dollar amounts of the reported amount of income tax expense attributable to continuing operations for the year to the amount of income tax expense that would result from applying domestic federal statutory tax rates to pretax income from continuing operations.

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