Income Taxes (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2018

Our income tax (benefit) expense is as follows:



	Year Ended December 31,
	2018		2017			2016
Current:
Federal	$	—	$	—		$	—
State	810		100			1,200
Total current income tax expense	$	810	$	100		$	1,200
Deferred:
Federal	$	114	$	(5,530	)	$	1,862
State	574		1,471			280
Total deferred income tax expense (benefit)	$	688	$	(4,059	)	$	2,142
Total income tax expense (benefit)	$	1,498	$	(3,959	)	$	3,342

Deferred tax assets and liabilities consist of the following:



	December 31,
	2018			2017
Deferred tax assets:
Net operating loss carryforwards	$	11,491		$	9,506
Total long-term deferred tax asset	11,491			9,506
Valuation allowances	(1,758		)	(1,285		)
Total deferred tax assets	$	9,733		$	8,221
Deferred tax liabilities:
Long-term:
Fixed assets	$	(2,893	)	$	(3,896	)
Intangible assets	(18,209		)	(15,797		)
Other	(1,207		)	(441		)
Total long-term liability	(22,309		)	(20,134		)
Total deferred tax liabilities	$	(22,309	)	$	(20,134	)
Total net deferred tax liability	$	(12,576	)	$	(11,913	)

The reconciliation between the Partnership's effective tax rate on income (loss) from operations and the statutory tax rate is as follows:



	Year Ended December 31,
	2018			2017			2016
Income(loss) from operations before income taxes	$	(10,294	)	$	78,120		$	114,424
Partnership income not subject to federal income tax	10,824			(77,704		)	(109,111		)
Income subject to federal income taxes	$	530		$	416		$	5,313
Tax expense at federal statutory rate	$	111		$	146		$	1,860
State income taxes, net of federal tax	1,285			1,396			949
Return to provision, federal and state	(128		)	(163		)	(198		)
Other	230			(68		)	731
Re-measurement of deferred taxes due to enacted tax rate change	—			(5,270		)	—
Income tax expense (benefit)	$	1,498		$	(3,959	)	$	3,342
Effective tax rate on income from operations before income taxes	(15		)%	(5		)%	3		%