Income Taxes (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2020

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

Schedule of income (loss) before income taxes

We had income (loss) before income taxes as follows:

	Fiscal Year Ended September 30,
	2020		2019		2018
United States	$	77,885	$	196,364	$	276,340
Foreign	—		—		(52)
Total	$	77,885	$	196,364	$	276,288

Schedule of provision for income taxes

We had a provision for income taxes which consists of the following:

	Fiscal Year Ended September 30,
	2020		2019		2018
Current:
Federal	$	7,138	$	20,020	$	29,644
State	2,584		7,302		9,403
Deferred:
Federal	1,252		(28)		15,043
State	578		26		4,772
Total	$	11,552	$	27,320	$	58,862

Schedule of income tax reconciliation

A reconciliation of the statutory income tax rate to the effective tax rate is as follows:

	Fiscal Year Ended September 30,
	2020		2019		2018
Income taxes computed at the federal statutory rate	21.0	%	21.0	%	24.5	%
State taxes, net of federal benefit	2.9	%	2.9	%	2.6	%
Tax Act transitional impact (1)	—	%	—	%	7.2	%
Permanent items (2)	1.0	%	0.1	%	(2.2)	%
Net income attributable to noncontrolling interest	(10.1)	%	(10.1)	%	(10.8)	%
Total	14.8	%	13.9	%	21.3	%

(1)    Transitional impact for the year ending September 30, 2018 is the $19,817 adjustment to our deferred tax asset due to the reduction in our corporate income tax rate under the Tax Act.

(2)    Permanent items for the year ending September 30, 2018 include the $24,710 reduction in our liability related to the tax receivable agreement, dated June 5, 2015, by and among RMR Inc., RMR LLC and ABP Trust, or the Tax Receivable Agreement, discussed in Note 6, Related Person Transactions.