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Income Taxes
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2023
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes

Note 11 — Income taxes

The source of pre-tax income and the components of income tax expense are as follows:

For the Years Ended

December 31, 

 

2023

    

2022

USD

USD

Income components

United States

$

(681,951)

$

991,240

Outside United States

 

2,069,739

 

3,549,310

Total pre-tax income

$

1,387,788

$

4,540,550

Provision for income taxes

 

  

 

  

Current

 

  

 

  

Federal

$

27,451

$

54,504

State

 

13,555

 

9,923

Foreign

 

670,512

 

594,267

 

711,518

 

658,694

Deferred

 

  

 

  

Federal

 

24,622

 

146,843

State

 

92,271

 

52,034

Foreign

 

(20,187)

 

3,059

 

96,706

 

201,936

Total provision for income taxes

$

808,224

$

860,630

 

 

Reconciliations between taxes at the U.S. federal income tax rate and taxes at the Company’s effective income tax rate on earnings before income taxes are as follows:

For the Years Ended

December 31, 

2023

2022

Federal statutory rate

21.0

%  

21.0

%

(Decrease) increase in tax rate resulting from:

  

 

  

State and local income taxes, net of federal benefit

(0.5)

 

1.0

Foreign operations

15.1

 

(3.3)

Permanent items

3.1

 

0.1

Deferred adjustments

16.8

 

Others

2.7

 

0.1

Effective tax rate

58.2

%  

18.9

%

 

The following is a summary of the components of the net deferred tax assets and liabilities recognized in the consolidated balance sheets:

    

As of

    

As of

December 31, 2023

December 31, 2022

USD

USD

Deferred tax assets

 

  

 

  

Allowance for credit losses

$

58,476

$

109,713

Other reserve

 

61,371

 

144,333

Accrued expenses

 

143,823

 

126,992

Lease liability

 

1,769,328

 

2,144,348

Charitable contributions

 

8,181

 

8,565

Business interest limitation

 

242,862

 

385,069

Net operating loss – federal

 

310,099

 

414,905

Net operating loss – state

 

27,337

 

75,863

Other

 

66,063

 

46,005

Total deferred tax assets

 

2,687,540

 

3,455,793

Less: valuation allowance

 

 

Net deferred tax assets

 

2,687,540

 

3,455,793

Deferred tax liabilities

 

  

 

  

Fixed assets

 

1,728,364

 

2,190,254

Intangibles

 

(209,657)

 

Total deferred tax liabilities

 

1,518,707

 

2,190,254

Deferred tax assets, net of deferred tax liabilities

$

1,168,833

$

1,265,539

 

The deferred tax assets related to the Company’s net operating losses of $1,836,077 (Federal $1,476,655 and States $359,422) and $3,174,799 (Federal $1,975,734 and States $1,199,065) as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. The Federal Net Operating losses have no expiration date. The States Net Operating losses have either 20 years or no expiration date. The Company had no material unrecognized tax benefits at December 31, 2023, 2022. The Company has not taken any tax positions for which it is reasonably possible that unrecognized tax benefits will significantly increase within the next 12 months.

Inflation Reduction Act of 2022

On August 16, 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the “IR Act”) was signed into federal law. The IR Act provides for, among other things, a new U.S. federal 1% excise tax on certain repurchases of stock by publicly traded U.S. domestic corporations and certain U.S. domestic subsidiaries of publicly traded foreign corporations occurring on or after January 1, 2023. The excise tax is imposed on the repurchasing corporation itself, not its shareholders from which shares are repurchased. The amount of the excise tax is generally 1% of the fair market value of the shares repurchased at the time of the repurchase. However, for purposes of calculating the excise tax, repurchasing corporations are permitted to net the fair market value of certain new stock issuances against the fair market value of stock repurchases during the same taxable year. In addition, certain exceptions apply to the excise tax. The U.S. Department of the Treasury (the “Treasury”) has been given authority to provide regulations and other guidance to carry out and prevent the abuse or avoidance of the excise tax. There was no material impact of the IR Act on the Companys consolidated financial statements.