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Income Taxes

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2019

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

Income Taxes

NOTE 11 - INCOME TAXES

Following is a summary of the components giving rise to the income tax provision (benefit) for the years ended December 31:

The provision (benefit) for income taxes consists of the following:

		2019				2018
Currently payable:
Federal		$	-			$	-
State			(68	)			6,920
Total currently payable			(68	)			6,920
Deferred:
Federal			(367,473	)			458,446
State			(124,975	)			67,451
Foreign			(116,863	)			(92,690.00	)
Total deferred			(609,311	)			433,207
Less: increase in allowance			476,972				(423,534	)
Net deferred			(125,419	)			9,673
Total income tax provision		$	(125,487	)		$	16,593

Individual components of deferred taxes are as follows:

Deferred tax assets:		2019				2018
Net operating loss carry forwards		$	11,188,858			$	10,135,005
Equity issued for services			169,445				152,240
Goodwill and other intangibles			675,885				788,288
Investment in pass-through entity			11,621				11,499
Deferred revenue			181,519				472,466
Operating Lease Liability			284,193				-
Other			376,462				470,780
Gross deferred tax assets			12,887,983				12,030,278

Deferred tax liabilities:
Goodwill and other intangibles			29,046				33,333
Depreciation and amortization			-				31,512
Right -of-use asset			284,193				-
Gross deferred tax liabilities			313,239				64,845

Less: valuation allowance			(12,618,311	)			(12,134,419	)

Net deferred tax liabilities		$	(43,567	)		$	(168,986	)

The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act repeals the corporate alternative minimum tax (AMT) and permits existing minimum tax credits carryovers to offset the regular tax liability for any tax year. Further, the credit is refundable for any tax year beginning after December 31, 2017 and before December 31, 2020 in an amount equal to 50 percent of the excess of the minimum tax credit over regular liability. Any remaining credit will be fully refundable for the year ended December 31, 2021. As of December 31, 2019, the Company had $46,601 of minimum tax credit included in prepaids and other current assets in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet.

The Company has approximately $50.6 million in federal net operating loss carryforwards (“NOLs”) available to reduce future taxable income, of which $3.8 million will never expire with the remaining expiring at various dates from 2022 through 2039. Due to the uncertainty as to the Company’s ability to generate sufficient taxable income in the future and utilize the NOLs before they expire and any other deferred tax assets, the Company has recorded a valuation allowance accordingly. The Company’s NOLs are subject to annual limitations as a result of a change in its equity ownership as defined under the Internal Revenue Code Section 382. These limitations, as applicable, could further limit the use of the NOLs. The valuation allowance for deferred tax assets increased by approximately $484,000 in the year ended December 31, 2019. The increase in the valuation allowance was primarily due to taxable loss in the current year.

The Company has adopted the provisions of ASU 2016-09 as of the beginning of 2018 which requires recognition through opening retained earnings of any pre-adoption date NOL carryforwards from nonqualified stock options and other employee share-based payments (e.g., restricted shares and share appreciation rights), as well as recognition of all income tax effects from share-based payments arising on or after January 1, 2017 (our adoption date) in income tax expense. In light of the Company’s valuation allowance on its deferred tax assets there was no adjustment required to its retained earnings nor was there any windfall tax benefit to recognize in the Company’s income tax provision.

The differences between the United States statutory federal income tax rate and the effective income tax rate in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations are as follows:

		2019				2018
Statutory United States federal rate			21.00	%			21.00	%
State income taxes net of federal benefit			3.28	%			4.00	%
Permanent differences			(1.61	)%			2.20	%
Other			(1.24	)%			0.70	%
Foreign taxes			(1.09	)%			1.70	%

Change in valuation reserves			(16.34	)%			(28.50)	%

Effective rate			4.00	%			1.10	%

The Company recognizes interest accrued and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits in tax expense. During the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, the Company recognized no interest and penalties.

The Company files income tax returns in the U.S. federal jurisdiction and various states. The tax years 2016-2019 generally remain open to examination by major taxing jurisdictions to which the Company is subject.