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Note 11 - Income Taxes
9 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2017
Notes to Financial Statements  
Income Tax Disclosure [Text Block]
1
1
.  Income Taxes
 
The
provision for income taxes is based upon loss before income taxes as follows (in thousands):
 
   
Three
Months Ended
Dec
ember 31, 2017
   
Nine
Months Ended
Dec
ember 31, 2017
 
Domestic pre-tax loss
  $
(2,065
)
  $
(6,688
)
Foreign pre-tax loss
   
(317
)
   
(464
)
Total pre-tax loss
  $
(2,382
)
  $
(7,152
)
 
The c
omponents of the benefit from income taxes are as follows (in thousands):
 
   
Three
Months Ended
Dec
ember 31, 2017
   
Nine
Months Ended
Dec
ember 31, 2017
 
US
  $
44
    $
42
 
Foreign
   
(8
)
   
(17
)
Total
benefit from income taxes
  $
36
    $
25
 
 
T
he Company accounts for its income taxes in accordance with ASC
740,
Income Taxes. ASC
740
clarifies the accounting for uncertainty in income taxes and prescribes a recognition threshold, measurement attribute for the financial statement recognition and measurement of a tax position taken, or expected to be taken, in a tax return. Under ASC
740,
the Company is required to recognize in the financial statements the impact of a tax position, if that position is more likely than
not
of being sustained on audit, based on the technical merits of the position. ASC
740
also provides guidance on derecognition, classification, interest and penalties, accounting in interim periods and disclosure. The Company policy is to record interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits in income tax expense. 
 
At
December 31, 2017,
there was
no
material increase in the liability for unrecognized tax benefits nor any accrued interest and penalties related to uncertain tax positions.
 
In addition, at
December 31, 2017,
the Company had approximately
$1.4
million of unrecognized tax benefits which were netted against deferred tax assets with a full valuation allowance. If these amounts are recognized, there will be
no
effect on the Company’s effective tax rate due to the full valuation allowance.
 
ASC
740
also requires the allocation of tax benefits recorded in other components of the financial statements to be recorded in continuing operations in interim periods. During the
nine
months ended
December 31, 2017,
the Company recorded a deferred tax liability in Other Comprehensive Income related to currency translation gains. Because the Company has a loss and a full valuation allowance in the United States, a tax benefit of
$0.06
million was recorded in continuing operations in the U.S. to record the impact of the valuation allowance release related to the currency translation gain during the
nine
months ended
December 31, 2017.
 
The Company
’s Federal, state and foreign tax returns
may
be subject to examination by the tax authorities for fiscal year ended from
1998
to
2016
due to net operating losses and tax carryforwards unutilized from such years.  
 
The
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of
2017
was enacted in
December 2017,
lowering the U.S. federal corporate tax rate to
21%.
Given the tax rate reduction, the Company remeasured its U.S. federal and state deferred tax assets which resulted in decreasing the Company’s deferred tax assets by approximately
$7.9
million. The Company has a full valuation allowance in the U.S. Accordingly, the Company’s valuation allowance also decreased by
$7.9
million, resulting in
no
net tax expense.