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Income Taxes
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2020
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes
9. Income Taxes

 

The Company's provision for income taxes consists of federal and state taxes, as applicable, in amounts necessary to align the Company's year-to-date tax provision with the effective rate that it expects to achieve for the full year. Each quarter the Company updates its estimate of the annual effective tax rate and records cumulative adjustments as necessary. As of June 30, 2020, our conclusion regarding the realizability of our US deferred tax assets did not change and we have recorded a full valuation allowance against them.

 

On March 27, 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (the "CARES Act") was enacted in response to COVID-19 pandemic. Under ASC 740, the effects of changes in tax rates and laws are recognized in the period which the new legislation is enacted. The CARES Act made various tax law changes including, among other things, (i) increasing the limitation under IRC Section 163(j) for 2019 and 2020 to permit additional expensing of interest (ii) enacting a technical correction so that qualified improvement property can be immediately expensed under IRC Section 168(k), (iii) making modifications to the federal net operating loss rules including permitting federal net operating losses incurred in 2018, 2019, and 2020 to be carried back to the five preceding taxable years in order to generate a refund of previously paid income taxes and (iv) enhancing recoverability of AMT tax credits. Given the Company's full valuation allowance position, the CARES Act did not have a material impact on the financial statements.

 

For the three and six months ended June 30, 2020, the Company recorded an income tax provision from continuing operations of $2,500 and $5,000, respectively, primarily related to state and local taxes. The effective tax rate for the three and six months ended June 30, 2020 was 0.39% and 2.38%, respectively. The effective tax rate differs from the statutory rate of 21% as the Company has concluded that its deferred tax assets are not realizable on a more-likely-than-not basis.

 

For the three months ended June 30, 2019, the Company recorded an income tax provision of $163,490 from continuing operations. The Company recorded an income tax provision for state and local taxes and reversed the income tax benefit recorded during the three months ended March 31, 2019 as the intra-period allocation guidance no longer applied as the Company reported income from both continuing and discontinued operations. For the six-months ended June 30, 2019, the Company recorded an income tax provision of $4,500. The effective tax rate for the three and six months ended June 30, 2019 was 36.5% and 1.21%, respectively.