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Income Taxes
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2016
Income Taxes  
Income Taxes

 

2.Income Taxes

 

The Company has elected to be taxed as a real estate investment trust (“REIT”) under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.  As a REIT, the Company generally is entitled to a tax deduction for dividends paid to its stockholders, thereby effectively subjecting the distributed net income of the Company to taxation at the shareholder level only.  The Company must comply with a variety of restrictions to maintain its status as a REIT.  These restrictions include the type of income it can earn, the type of assets it can hold, the number of stockholders it can have and the concentration of their ownership, and the amount of the Company’s income that must be distributed annually.

 

Accrued interest and penalties will be recorded as income tax expense, if the Company records a liability in the future.  The Company files income tax returns in the U.S. federal jurisdiction and the State of Illinois jurisdiction.  The statute of limitations for the Company’s income tax returns is generally three years and as such, the Company’s returns that remain subject to examination would be primarily from 2012 and thereafter.