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Income Taxes
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2020
Income Taxes.  
Income Taxes

Note 9. Income Taxes

The Company’s provision for income taxes consists of federal, state, local, and foreign taxes in amounts necessary to align the Company’s year-to-date provision for income taxes with the effective tax rate that the Company expects to achieve for the full year. Due to the novel circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, a reliable forecast cannot be substantiated; therefore, each quarter the Company will utilize the year to date effective tax rate and record adjustments as deemed necessary. The Company had de minimis income tax expense for the three months ended March 31, 2020. This was attributable primarily to operating results in conjunction with a full valuation allowance. The final annual tax rate cannot be determined until the end of the fiscal year; therefore, the actual tax rate could differ from current estimates. The Company does not expect to record any additional material provisions for unrecognized tax benefits in the next year.

As of March 31, 2020, the Company has net operating loss carryforwards for U.S. federal purposes, certain of which expire 20 years from the respective tax years to which they relate and certain of which have an indefinite life due to regulations in the Tax Act of 2017 (the “Tax Act”).  The deferred tax assets generated from the Company’s activities in the United States were offset by a valuation allowance because realization depends on generating future taxable income, which, in the Company’s estimation, is not more likely than not to be generated before such net operating loss carryforwards expire. The Company expects its effective tax rate for its current fiscal year to be significantly lower than the statutory rate as a result of a full valuation allowance; therefore, any loss before income taxes does not generate a corresponding income tax benefit.