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Other Accrued Liabilities
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2020
Other Accrued Liabilities [Abstract]  
Other Accrued Liabilities
Note 8
Other Accrued Liabilities:

  
December 31, 2020
  
December 31, 2019
 
       
Accrued warranty, current, see Note 1
 
$
87
  
$
170
 
Accrued compensation, including commissions and vacation
  
891
   
1,193
 
Accrued state sales use and other taxes
  
3,105
   
3,193
 
Accrued professional fees and other accrued liabilities
  
607
   
578
 
Total other accrued liabilities
 
$
4,690
  
$
5,134
 

In the ordinary course of business, the Company is, from time to time, subject to audits performed by state taxing authorities. These actions and proceedings are generally based on the position that the arrangements entered into by the Company are subject to sales and use tax rather than exempt from tax under applicable law. The Company uses estimates when accruing its sales and use tax liability. All of the Company’s tax positions are subject to audit. One state has assessed the Company, in two assessments, an aggregate amount of $1,484 for the period from March 2014 through February 2020 including penalties and interest. The Company has declined an informal offer to settle at a substantially lower amount and the Company appealed in that jurisdiction’s administrative process of appeal.

In January 2021, the Company received notification that the administrative judge from the respective state had issued an opinion finding in favor of the Company that the sale of XTRAC treatment codes were not taxable as sales tax with respect to the first assessment. The jurisdiction has 30 days plus extensions to file an appeal and on March 25th the Company received an advisory from the jurisdiction that it would file an appeal.

A second jurisdiction has made an assessment of $720 from June 2015 through March 2018 plus interest of $171 through April 2020. The Company is also in that jurisdiction’s administrative process of appeal and the timing of the process has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. If there is a determination that the true object of the Company’s recurring revenue model is not exempt from sales taxes and is not a prescription medicine or the Company does not have other defenses where the Company does not prevail, the Company may be subject to sales taxes in those particular states for previous years and in the future, plus potential interest and penalties for failure to pay such taxes.
 
The Company believes its state sales and use tax accruals have properly recognized such that if the Company’s arrangements with customers are deemed more likely than not that the Company would not be exempt from sales tax in a particular state are the basis for measurement of the state sales and use tax is calculated in accordance with ASC 405, Liabilities as a transaction tax. If and when the Company is successful in defending itself or in settling the sales tax obligation for a lesser amount, the reversal of this liability is to be recorded in the period the settlement is reached. However, the precise scope, timing and time period at issue, as well as the final outcome of any audit and actual settlement remains uncertain.
 
The Company records state sales tax collected and remitted for its customers on equipment sales on a net basis, excluded from revenue. The Company’s sales tax expense that is not presently being collected and remitted for the recurring revenue business are recorded in general and administrative expenses on the consolidated statements of operations.