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Income Taxes
 9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2025
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes Income Taxes
The income tax provision was $2.6 million and $0.9 million for the three months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively. The provision for income taxes resulted in an effective tax rate of 816.6% for the three months ended September 30, 2025 and 85.9% for the three months ended September 30, 2024. The effective income tax rate for the three months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 differs from the federal statutory rate of 21%, primarily due to the U.S. state income taxes and the impact of income earned in foreign jurisdictions comparative to the level of income in total.
The income tax provision was $2.3 million and income tax benefit was $8.2 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively. The provision for income taxes resulted in an effective tax rate of (329.8)% for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 22.8% for the nine months ended September 30, 2024. The effective income tax rate for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 differs from the federal statutory rate of 21%, primarily due to the U.S. state income taxes and the impact of income earned in foreign jurisdictions comparative to the level of income in total.
Harte Hanks, or one of our subsidiaries file income tax returns in the U.S. federal, U.S. state, and foreign jurisdictions. For U.S. state returns, we are no longer subject to tax examinations for years prior to 2022. The Company has reviewed all of its tax positions in order to determine whether all, a portion, or none of any related tax benefit should be recognized and has not identified or recorded any ASC 740-10 reserve.
We have elected to classify any interest expense and penalties related to income taxes within income tax expense in our Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive (Loss) Income. We did not have a significant amount of interest or penalties accrued at September 30, 2025 or December 31, 2024.