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Income Taxes
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2024
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 Three Months Ended

For the Six Months Ended

June 30, 

June 30, 

    

2024

    

2023

    

2024

    

2023

 

USD

USD

USD

USD

Income components

United States

$

(1,200,966)

$

36,944

$

(1,840,931)

$

(401,898)

Outside United States

 

879,136

 

242,983

 

1,003,531

 

411,079

Total pre-tax (loss) income

$

(321,830)

$

279,927

$

(837,400)

$

9,181

Provision for income taxes

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

Current

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

Federal

$

34,488

$

11,165

$

538

$

10,624

State

 

12,554

 

5,887

 

8,425

 

3,133

Foreign

 

220,834

 

164,709

 

329,745

 

300,797

 

267,876

 

181,761

 

338,708

 

314,554

Deferred

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

Federal

 

(379,397)

 

7,888

 

(417,347)

 

(92,675)

State

 

(42,821)

 

5,785

 

(53,414)

 

6,184

Foreign

 

(144,073)

 

(3,988)

 

(144,073)

 

(3,988)

 

(566,291)

 

9,685

 

(614,834)

 

(90,479)

Total provision for income taxes

$

(298,415)

$

191,446

$

(276,126)

$

224,075

 

 

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 Six Months Ended

 

June 30, 

 

    

2024

    

2023

 

Federal statutory rate

21.0

%  

21.0

%

Increase (decrease) in tax rate resulting from:

  

 

  

State and local income taxes, net of federal benefit

4.3

 

(5.3)

Foreign operations

(1.6)

 

84.0

Permanent items

(10.6)

 

2.5

Deferred adjustments

17.9

 

9.6

Others

2.0

 

(0.9)

Effective tax rate

33.0

%  

110.9

%

 

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

June 30, 2024

December 31, 2023

USD

USD

Deferred tax assets

 

  

 

  

Allowance for credit losses

$

52,163

$

58,476

Other reserve

 

57,857

 

61,371

Accrued expenses

 

157,981

 

143,823

Lease liability

 

1,619,063

 

1,769,328

Charitable contributions

 

8,187

 

8,181

Business interest limitation

 

378,489

 

242,862

Net operating loss – federal

 

623,342

 

310,099

Net operating loss – state

 

65,184

 

27,337

Other

 

195,104

 

66,063

Total deferred tax assets

 

3,157,370

 

2,687,540

Less: valuation allowance

 

 

Net deferred tax assets

 

3,157,370

 

2,687,540

Deferred tax liabilities

 

  

 

  

Fixed assets

 

1,561,953

 

1,728,364

Intangibles

 

(188,250)

 

(209,657)

Total deferred tax liabilities

 

1,373,703

 

1,518,707

Deferred tax assets, net of deferred tax liabilities

$

1,783,667

$

1,168,833

 

The deferred tax assets related to the Company’s net operating losses of $4,040,249 (Federal $2,968,286 and States $1,071,963) and $1,836,077 (Federal $1,476,655 and States $359,422) as of June 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, 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 June 30, 2024 or, December 31, 2023. 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 Company’s consolidated financial statements.