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Income Taxes
3 Months Ended
Jan. 25, 2019
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes

Note 5 – Income Taxes:

 

On December 22, 2017, President Trump signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Tax Act”). The Tax Act includes significant changes to the U.S. tax code that will affect our fiscal year ending November 1, 2019, and future periods, including, but not limited to, (1) reducing the corporate federal income tax rate from 35% to 21%, (2) bonus depreciation that will allow for full expensing of qualified property in the year placed in service, and (3) the repeal of the domestic production activity deduction beginning with our fiscal year 2020.

 

Under U.S. GAAP, specifically ASC Topic 740, Income Taxes, the tax effects of changes in tax laws must be recognized in the period in which the law is enacted, or December 22, 2017, for the Tax Act. ASC Topic 740 also requires deferred tax assets and liabilities to be measured at the enacted tax rate expected to apply when temporary differences are to be realized or settled. Thus, at the date of enactment, the Company’s deferred taxes were re-measured based upon the new tax rates. The change in deferred taxes is recorded as an adjustment to our deferred tax provision, for the twelve weeks ended January 26, 2018.

 

The Tax Act reduced the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%, effective January 1, 2018. This results in a blended corporate tax rate of 23.07% in fiscal year 2018 and 21% in fiscal year 2019 and thereafter. We analyzed our deferred tax balances to estimate which of those balances are expected to reverse in fiscal 2018 or thereafter, and we re-measured the deferred taxes at 23.07% or 21% accordingly. The change in deferred taxes was recorded as an adjustment to our income tax provision which resulted in a charge totaling $3,059 in fiscal year 2018.

 

The effective tax rate was 26.91% and 177.68% for the first quarter of fiscal 2019 and 2018, respectively. The remeasurement of deferred income taxes at newly enacted tax rates resulted in a $3,200 income tax expense or a 37.5% impact on the effective tax rate for the first quarter of fiscal year 2018, and a blended 23.07% statutory federal income tax rate for fiscal 2018. The effective tax rate for the first quarter of fiscal 2018 also reflects the impact of $1,640 of income tax expense or 19.2% related to tax on the gain on sale of a land parcel in Chicago, Illinois. Additionally, the effective tax rates for the first quarter of fiscal years 2019 and 2018 were impacted by such items as the domestic production deduction, non-taxable gains and losses on life insurance policies and state income taxes.

 

As of January 25, 2019, the Company did not have any outstanding federal or state, other than California, net operating loss carryforwards.

 

Our federal income tax returns are open to audit under the statute of limitations for the fiscal years ended on or about October 31, 2015 through 2017. We are subject to income tax in California and various other state taxing jurisdictions. Our California state income tax returns are open to audit under the statute of limitations for the fiscal years ended on or about October 31, 2014 through 2017.