Income Taxes

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2012

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

Income Tax Disclosure [Text Block]

7. Income Taxes

The Company files U.S. federal income tax returns and various state income tax returns. The Company may be subject to examination by the IRS for the tax year 1995 and forward. Additionally, the Company may be subject to examinations by various state taxing jurisdictions for tax years 2000 forward. The Company is currently not under examination by the IRS or any state tax jurisdiction with the exception of finalizing an income tax return examination by the State of Illinois for the 2007 and 2008 tax years.

The Company did not have any unrecognized tax benefits at December 31, 2011, and March 31, 2012, respectively, including interest and penalties. In the future, any interest and penalties related to uncertain tax positions will be recognized in income tax expense.

The current income tax benefit for the three months ended March 31, 2012 is expected to be absorbed into the full year operations with no significant change in the annual effective rate. No tax benefit has been associated with the exercise of stock options for the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively, because of the existence of net operating loss carryforwards. There will be no credit to additional paid in capital for such until the associated benefit is realized through a reduction of income taxes payable. The tax benefit associated with the exercise of stock options included in NOL’s that will be credited to additional paid-in capital when the NOL’s are used to reduce taxes currently payable is approximately $950,000. As of March 31, 2012, there were no changes in the valuation allowance as there were no events that occurred which would indicate utilization of net operating loss deductions would be further limited.