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Income Taxes
9 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019
Income Taxes [Abstract]  
Income Taxes

10.Income Taxes 



On December 22, 2017, new federal tax provisions under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (“TCJA”) were signed into law.  The TCJA includes numerous changes to existing corporate income tax laws.  These changes include, among others, a permanent reduction in the federal corporate income tax rate from the highest marginal rate of 35% to a fixed rate of 21%, effective as of January 1, 2018, and a provision that federal net operating losses (“NOLs”) incurred in tax years ending after December 31, 2017 may be carried forward indefinitely. As a result, the Company may now consider indefinite lived assets and the associated deferred tax liability as a source of future taxable income when assessing the potential to realize future tax deductions from indefinite carryforwards of NOLs and interest expense. 



As of March 31, 2018, the Company had federal and state NOL carryforwards of approximately $125.7 million and $51.3 million, respectively, expiring in various amounts from 2019 through 2037, to offset future taxable income.  Per the TCJA, federal and TCJA-adhering state NOLs of approximately $34.1 million and $4.4 million, respectively, generated in fiscal year ended March 31, 2018 can be carried forward indefinitely and are not subject to the 80% of taxable income NOL deduction limitation.  As of March 31, 2019, the Company had federal and state NOL carryforwards of approximately $164.0 million and $74.0 million, respectively, expiring in various amounts from 2020 through 2037, to offset future taxable income. Federal and state NOLs of approximately $72.6 million and $10.3 million, respectively, can be carried forward indefinitely but a portion of federal and state NOLs of approximately $38.5 million and $6.0 million, respectively, is limited to 80% of future taxable income when used. For the nine months ended December 31, 2019, the Company incurred federal and state operating losses of approximately $28.6 million and $17.0 million, respectively, to offset future taxable income, of which $33.0 million can be carried forward indefinitely, but can only offset 80% of taxable income when used.



The Company used a discrete effective tax rate method to calculate taxes for the three- and nine-month ended December 31, 2019. The Company determined that applying an estimate of the annual effective tax rate would not provide a reasonable estimate as small changes in estimated “ordinary” loss would result in significant changes in the estimated annual effective tax rate. Accordingly, for the nine months ending December 31, 2019, the Company recorded a total deferred tax expense of $594,000 due to the inability to use some portion of federal and state NOL carryforwards against the deferred tax liability created by the amortization of indefinite-lived intangibles.