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Income Taxes
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2020
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes INCOME TAXES
On March 27, 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act ("CARES Act") was enacted and signed into law in response to coronavirus disease 2019 ("COVID-19"). The CARES Act, among other things, includes several significant provisions that could impact corporate taxpayers’ accounting for income taxes.

Prior to the enactment of the CARES Act, the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act generally eliminated the ability to carryback net operating losses ("NOL"), and permitted the NOL arising in tax years beginning after December 31, 2017 to be carried forward indefinitely, limited to 80% of the taxpayer’s income. The CARES Act amended the NOL rules suspending the 80% limitation on the utilization of NOLs generated after December 31, 2017 and before January 1, 2021. Additionally the CARES Act allows corporate NOLs arising in taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017 and before January 1, 2021, to be carried back to each of the five taxable years preceding the taxable year of the loss.

Accordingly, during the first quarter 2020, we performed various analyses and evaluated the potential impact to our financial statements as a result of the CARES Act. Based on our assessment, we determined that the modifications to the NOL carryback provision of the CARES Act would result in a tax benefit and cash inflow for us. We expect that taxable losses incurred in 2019 may be fully carried back and utilized against the taxable income generated and taxes paid in the previous tax years which were measured at 35%.

As a result of the CARES Act, we recorded a $3.2 million income tax benefit associated with the remeasurement to the NOL carryback at a 14% tax rate differential in the first quarter of 2020. Furthermore, a corresponding income tax receivable from the NOL carryback was recorded in the first quarter of 2020.