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Income Tax
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2018
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Tax

NOTE 15 – INCOME TAX

 

  A. Measurement of results for tax purposes under the Israeli Income Tax (Inflationary Adjustments) Law, 1985 (the “Inflationary Adjustment Law)
     
    Commencing January 1, 2008, the results of operations of Integrity Israel for tax purposes are measured on a nominal basis.
     
  B. Changes in the corporate tax rates
     
    Israel - on December 22, 2016 the Knesset plenum passed the Economic Efficiency Law (Legislative Amendments for Achieving Budget Objectives in the Years 2017 and 2018) – 2016, by which, inter alia, the corporate tax rate would be reduced from 25% to 23% in two steps. The first step would be to reduce the corporate tax rate to 24% as of January 2017 and the second step would be to reduce the corporate tax rate to 23% as of January 2018.This change has no impact on the financial statements.
     
   

Untied states of America - On December 22, 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was enacted and made key changes to US tax law which include (i) establish a flat corporate income tax rate of 21% to replace current rates that range from 15% to 35% and eliminates the corporate alternative minimum tax; (ii) create a territorial tax system rather than a worldwide system, which will generally allow companies to repatriate future foreign source earnings without incurring additional US taxes by providing a 100% exemption for the foreign source portion of dividends from certain foreign subsidiaries; (iii) subject certain foreign earnings on which US income tax is currently deferred to a one-time transition tax; (iv) create a “minimum tax” on certain foreign earnings and a new base erosion anti-abuse tax (BEAT) that subjects certain payments made by a US company to a related foreign company to additional taxes; (v) create an incentive for US companies to sell, lease or license goods and services abroad by effectively taxing them at a reduced rate; (vi) reduce the maximum deduction for Net Operating Loss (NOL) carryforwards arising in tax years beginning after 2017 to a percentage of the taxpayer’s taxable income, allows any NOLs generated in tax years beginning after December 31, 2017 to be carried forward indefinitely and generally repeals carrybacks; (vii) elimination of foreign tax credits or deductions for taxes (including withholding taxes) paid or accrued with respect to any dividend to which the new exemption applies, but foreign tax credits will continue to be allowed to offset tax on foreign income taxed to the US shareholder subject to limitations; (viii) limit the deduction for net interest expense incurred by US corporations, (ix) allow businesses to immediately write off (or expense) the cost of new investments in certain qualified depreciable assets made after September 27, 2017 (but would be phased down starting in 2023); (x) may require certain changes in tax accounting methods for revenue recognition; (xi) repeal the Section 199 domestic production deductions beginning in 2018; (xii) eliminate or reduce certain deductions, exclusions and credits, and adds other provisions that broaden the tax base.

 

After the enactment of the Tax Act, the SEC issued Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 118 (“SAB 118”) to address the application of U.S. GAAP in situations when a registrant does not have the necessary information available, prepared, or analyzed (including computations) in reasonable detail to complete the accounting for certain income tax effects of the Tax Act.

 

The Company has calculated an estimate of the impact of the Tax Act in our year-end income tax provision in accordance with our understanding of the Tax Act and guidance available as of the date of this filing. The provisional amount related to the re-measurement of our net U.S. deferred tax asset, based on the rate at which they are now expected to reverse in the future, considered immaterial, but which was fully and equally offset by a corresponding reduction in the Company's valuation allowance. The effect of the change in federal corporate tax rate from 34% to 21% is subject to change based on resolution of estimates used in determining the amounts of deferred tax assets and liabilities that were re-measured.

 

The change in U.S tax law has no impact on the consolidated financial statements

     
  C. Tax assessments
     
    For federal, state and local income tax purposes the Company remains open for examination by the tax authorities for the tax years from 2015 through 2017 under the general statute of limitations.
     
    Notwithstanding, pursuant and subject to the provisions of article 145 of the Income Tax Ordinance, Integrity Israel’s tax returns that were filled with the tax authority up to and including 2014 are considered final.
     
  D. Carryforward tax losses
     
    As of December 31, 2018, the Company had cumulative net operating losses (NOL) for US federal purposes of approximately $7.0 million that will expire between the years 2032-2036. Integrity Israel has losses carry forward balances for Israeli income tax purposes of approximately $31 million to offset against future taxable income for an indefinite period of time.
     
  E. The following is a reconciliation between the theoretical tax on pre-tax income, at the tax rate applicable to the Company (federal tax rate) and the tax expense reported in the financial statements:

 

    2018     2017  
             
Pretax income (loss)     (6,715,420 )     (10,328,806 )
Federal tax rate     21 %     34 %
Income tax expenses (benefit) computed at the ordinary tax rate     (1,410,238 )     (3,511,794 )
Non-deductible expenses     17,392       41,829  
Stock-based compensation     148,102       908,041  
Warrants with down round protection     -       (102,110 )
Tax in respect of differences in corporate tax rates     (98,222 )     524,134  
Losses and timing differences in respect of which no deferred taxes assets were recognized     1,342,966       2,139,900  
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  F. Deferred taxes result principally from temporary differences in the recognition of certain revenue and expense items for financial and income tax reporting purposes. Significant components of the Group’s future tax assets are as follows:

 

    2018     2017  
Composition of deferred tax assets:                
Provision for employee-related obligation     23,304       21,086  
Non-capital loss carry forwards     8,925,430       10,354,385  
Valuation allowance     (8,948,734 )     (10,375,471 )
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