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Income Taxes
6 Months Ended
Jun. 29, 2019
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes
Income Taxes
We are required to compute income tax expense in each jurisdiction in which we operate. This process requires us to project our current tax liability and estimate our deferred tax assets and liabilities, including net operating loss (“NOL”) and tax credit carry-forwards. In assessing the ability to realize the net deferred tax assets, we consider whether it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the net deferred tax assets will not be realized.
ASC 740 requires a valuation allowance to reduce deferred tax assets if, based on the weight of available evidence, it is more likely than not that some portion, or all, of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. The weight given to the potential effect of negative and positive evidence should be commensurate with the extent to which it can be objectively verified. The more negative evidence that exists, (a) the more positive evidence is necessary and (b) the more difficult it is to support a conclusion that a valuation allowance is not needed for some portion, or all, of the deferred tax asset. A cumulative loss in recent years is considered a significant piece of negative evidence that is difficult to overcome in assessing the need for a valuation allowance.
On a periodic basis, we reassess the need for a valuation allowance on deferred tax assets by weighing positive and negative evidence to assess the recoverability of deferred tax assets. We evaluate the realizability of our deferred tax assets by tax-paying jurisdiction and assess the need for a valuation allowance on a quarterly and annual basis. We evaluate the profitability of each tax-paying component on an historic cumulative basis and a forward-looking basis as part of this analysis. We also weigh other available evidence, both positive and negative, to inform our assessment. Based on the analysis performed this quarter, we concluded that it is not more likely than not that our deferred tax assets will be realized. As a result, we recorded a valuation allowance on our deferred tax assets.
In the fourth quarter of 2018 and at the first quarter of 2019, we reached a conclusion that it was more likely than not that substantially all of our deferred taxes would be realized. In each of those periods we had experienced cumulative consolidated pre-tax income on a 3-year basis, most significantly in the United States which has the substantial majority of our deferred tax assets. In addition, during these periods we were projecting to remain in a consolidated pre-tax income position in future years and this positive evidence outweighed all other evidence as it related to our ability to realize our deferred tax assets at these reporting periods.
There were several events that transpired in the second quarter of fiscal 2019, resulting in a change in our financial outlook, our weighting of evidence, and therefore our conclusion is that it is not more likely than not we will realize substantially all of our deferred tax assets as of June 29, 2019. We entered a cumulative consolidated pre-tax loss in the second quarter of fiscal 2019 and are now projecting to remain in one in the near future. Our pre-tax losses incurred to date in fiscal 2019 and our projections for the remainder of the year have been negatively affected by meaningful increases in our operating expenses and decreases in our projected revenues. On May 9, 2019 we announced decisions we have made to invest in safety related initiatives, which added a significant new cost to our operating plan. In the second quarter of fiscal 2019, we also experienced indicators of impairment related to our decision to no longer invest in Figure 8, which we recently acquired and recorded compensation and other impairment charges described in Note 5. In addition, in the second quarter of fiscal 2019 we experienced lower than expected revenues which we attribute to lower than expected conversions of new members and renewals of existing members. We also expect these trends to adversely affect our revenue growth for the remainder of the year. As a result, we have meaningfully lowered our projections of revenue for the remainder of the year, which significantly affects our ability to generate pre-tax income.
We concluded the negative evidence summarized above outweighs the positive evidence as of the second quarter of fiscal 2019, and therefore, have not relied on projections of taxable income in our assessment of the realization of deferred taxes at June 29, 2019. We therefore recognized a valuation allowance of $44.5 million in income tax expense in the three and six months ended June 29, 2019.
We recorded an income tax expense of $46.2 million and an income tax benefit of $0.9 million for the three months ended June 29, 2019 and June 30, 2018, respectively, and income tax expense $45.2 million and an income tax benefit of $1.6 million for the six months ended June 29, 2019 and June 30, 2018, respectively. The expense recorded for the three and six months ended June 29, 2019 primarily relates to the recording of a valuation allowance against our net deferred tax assets.
The tax benefit recorded for the three and six months ended June 30, 2018 primarily relates to excess tax benefits recorded from the taxable compensation on share-based awards. The tax benefit for the three and six months ended June 30, 2018 is partially offset by tax expenses pertaining to amortization of goodwill for tax purposes, for which there is no corresponding book deduction, foreign taxes in certain foreign jurisdictions, and certain state taxes based on operating income that are payable without regard to tax loss carryforwards.