Income Taxes	3 Months Ended
May 02, 2020
Income Taxes
Income Taxes	8. Income Taxes Income taxes are accounted for under the asset and liability method. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases and operating loss and tax credit carryforwards. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in income in the period that includes the enactment date. In assessing the realizability of deferred tax assets, management considers whether it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. For the thirteen weeks ended May 2, 2020, the Company utilized the discrete effective tax rate method to determine its tax expense based upon interim period results. The Company concluded that the use of the discrete method was more appropriate than the annual effective tax rate method because the full-year tax rate is not reliably predictable. The effective income tax rate was 24.0% for the thirteen weeks ended May 2, 2020, compared to 14.2% for the thirteen weeks ended May 4, 2019. The difference in the effective income tax rate was due to a pretax loss for the thirteen weeks ended May 2, 2020 compared to pretax income in the prior year. On March 27, 2020, the CARES Act was enacted into law. The CARES Act includes several significant business tax provisions that, among other things, would eliminate the taxable income limit for certain net operating losses (“NOLs”) and allow businesses to carry back NOLs arising in 2018, 2019 and 2020 to the five prior tax years, reduce the business interest limitation under section 163(j), and fix the qualified improvement property regulations in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. As a result of the CARES Act, to the extent that there are taxable losses at the end of fiscal 2020, the Company estimates that it will be able to obtain a tax refund from the carryback of federal NOLs.

8. Income Taxes

Income taxes are accounted for under the asset and liability method. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases and operating loss and tax credit carryforwards. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in income in the period that includes the enactment date. In assessing the realizability of deferred tax assets, management considers whether it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized.

For the thirteen weeks ended May 2, 2020, the Company utilized the discrete effective tax rate method to determine its tax expense based upon interim period results. The Company concluded that the use of the discrete method was more appropriate than the annual effective tax rate method because the full-year tax rate is not reliably predictable.

The effective income tax rate was 24.0% for the thirteen weeks ended May 2, 2020, compared to 14.2% for the thirteen weeks ended May 4, 2019. The difference in the effective income tax rate was due to a pretax loss for the thirteen weeks ended May 2, 2020 compared to pretax income in the prior year.

On March 27, 2020, the CARES Act was enacted into law. The CARES Act includes several significant business tax provisions that, among other things, would eliminate the taxable income limit for certain net operating losses (“NOLs”) and allow businesses to carry back NOLs arising in 2018, 2019 and 2020 to the five prior tax years, reduce the business interest limitation under section 163(j), and fix the qualified improvement property regulations in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. As a result of the CARES Act, to the extent that there are taxable losses at the end of fiscal 2020, the Company estimates that it will be able to obtain a tax refund from the carryback of federal NOLs.