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Income Taxes
 3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2025
Income Taxes  
Income Taxes

Note 8 – Income Taxes

Income taxes as a percentage of pre-tax loss was 4.6% for the three months ended March 31, 2025 versus 3.1% for the same quarter in the prior year. Our income tax expense is impacted by the mix of domestic and foreign pre-tax earnings and losses, permanent differences between book income/loss and taxable income/loss, and our ability to utilize net operating loss carryforwards (“NOLs”). Accordingly, our effective tax rate typically will vary from the U.S. statutory tax rate of 21% from quarter to quarter. The effective tax rates for the three-month periods ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 were impacted by the amount of our foreign pre-tax income/loss and the tax expense/benefit thereon while not realizing a benefit on our domestic pre-tax loss and certain foreign losses due to the valuation allowances thereon.

Management assesses the available positive and negative evidence to estimate if sufficient future taxable income will be generated to utilize the existing deferred tax assets. We analyzed our need to record a valuation allowance against our otherwise recognizable net deferred tax assets in the federal, state and foreign jurisdictions, and we determined that a valuation allowance on federal, state, and certain foreign deferred tax assets was necessary at both March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024. The amount of deferred tax assets considered realizable could be adjusted in future periods if estimates of future taxable income during the carryforward period are reduced or increased, or if objective negative evidence in the form of cumulative losses is no longer present and additional weight is given to subjective evidence such as our projections for future profitability.

The Internal Revenue Code includes a provision, referred to as Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income (“GILTI”), which provides for a 10.5% tax on certain income of controlled foreign corporations. We have elected to account for GILTI as a period cost if and when incurred, rather than recognizing deferred taxes for basis differences expected to reverse.

Of our $2.6 million of cash at March 31, 2025, $1.9 million was held by our foreign subsidiaries. If these funds are needed for our operations in the U.S. or for acquisitions, we have several methods to repatriate the funds without significant tax effects, including repayment of intercompany loans or distributions of previously taxed income. Other distributions may require us to incur U.S. or foreign taxes to repatriate these funds.