Income Taxes

3 Months Ended

May 02, 2020

NOTE 5 | INCOME TAXES

The provision for income taxes is based on a current estimate of the annual effective tax rate, adjusted to reflect the effect of discrete items. The Company’s effective income tax rate may fluctuate from quarter to quarter as a result of a variety of factors, including the estimate of annual pre-tax income, the related changes in the estimate, and the effect of discrete items. The impact of these items on the effective tax rate will be greater at lower levels of pre-tax earnings.

The Company’s effective tax rate was (4.0)% and 8.4% for the thirteen weeks ended May 2, 2020 and May 4, 2019, respectively. The effective tax rate for the thirteen weeks ended May 2, 2020 reflects the impact of establishing a valuation allowance against the Company’s net deferred tax assets, which includes $54.3 million of discrete tax expense from a valuation allowance on previously recognized deferred tax assets and $6.8 million valuation allowance on 2020 U.S. state taxes and other tax credits. The effective tax rate for the thirteen weeks ended May 4, 2019 reflects a tax benefit from a pre-tax loss offset by $1.4 million of discrete tax expense related to a tax shortfall for share-based compensation.

Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose during Q1, the Company no longer believes they are able to objectively forecast taxable income in future years, which provides significant negative evidence when assessing whether the Company will more likely than not realize the full amount of the U.S. net deferred tax assets. As such, the Company recorded a valuation allowance against the full amount of the U.S. net deferred tax assets that are not forecasted to be utilized with the 2020 net operating loss carryback. We will continue to evaluate the Company’s ability to realize the deferred tax assets on a quarterly basis.

On March 27, 2020, the Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security (“CARES”) Act was enacted into law. The CARES Act provided several provisions that impacted the Company including the establishment of a five-year carryback of net operating losses originating in the tax years 2018, 2019, and 2020, temporarily suspending the 80% limitation on the use of net operating losses, relaxing limitation rules on business interest deductions, and retroactively clarifying that businesses may immediately write-off certain qualified leasehold improvement property dating back to January 1, 2018.

The Company’s effective tax rate for the thirteen weeks ended May 2, 2020 includes the $61.1 million valuation allowance noted above offset by a $19.5 million tax benefit related to the CARES Act, which includes the benefit for the portion of the estimated 2019 and 2020 U.S. Federal net operating losses that are able to be carried back to offset taxable income in the five-year carryback period.

Included in other current assets is a $9.7 million income tax receivable due to the 2019 carryback of net operating losses allowed under the CARES Act. Included in other assets is a $48.2 million income tax receivable due to the expected net operating loss carryback allowed under the CARES Act based on current quarter losses.

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The entire disclosure for income taxes. Disclosures may include net deferred tax liability or asset recognized in an enterprise's statement of financial position, net change during the year in the total valuation allowance, approximate tax effect of each type of temporary difference and carryforward that gives rise to a significant portion of deferred tax liabilities and deferred tax assets, utilization of a tax carryback, and tax uncertainties information.

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