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9. INCOME TAXES
6 Months Ended
Aug. 31, 2018
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
INCOME TAXES

 

NOTE 9:  INCOME TAX

 

Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

 

On December 22, 2017, the U.S. government enacted comprehensive tax legislation commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the "TCJA"). The TCJA makes broad and complex changes to the U.S. tax code, including, but not limited to, reducing the U.S. statutory corporate income tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent, effective January 1, 2018. U.S. GAAP requires that deferred income tax assets and liabilities be remeasured at the income tax rate expected to apply when those temporary differences reverse, and that the effects of any change to such income tax rate be recognized in the period when the change was enacted.

 

In connection with the Company's initial analysis of the impact of the TCJA, the Company recorded a discrete net tax expense of $282,408 in the year ended February 28, 2018. This net expense is primarily due to the remeasurement of the Company's existing deferred tax assets and liabilities. Due to the Company having a full valuation allowance related to their deferred taxes, the $282,408 discrete tax expense associated with the remeasurement is equally offset by the valuation allowance causing an overall net zero impact on the Company's current tax rate.

 

The SEC staff issued Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 118 ("SAB 118"), which provides guidance on accounting for the tax effects of the TCJA. SAB 118 provides a measurement period that should not extend beyond one year from the TCJA enactment date for companies to complete the accounting under ASC 740. To the extent that a company's accounting for certain income tax effects of the TCJA is incomplete but it is able to determine a reasonable estimate, it must record a provisional estimate in the financial statements.

We recorded the effects of the TCJA for year ended February 28, 2018 using our best estimates and the information available to us through the date the financial statements were issued. However, our analysis is ongoing and as such, the income tax effects that we have recorded are provisional.

Tax Provision

 

The Company expects its effective tax rate for the 2019 fiscal year to be different from the federal statutory rate due primarily to a change in valuation allowance.

 

We recorded a provision for income taxes of $0 and $1,800 for the quarter ended August 31, 2018 and 2017 respectively, related to federal and state taxes, based on the Company's expected annual effective tax rate.