Income Taxes

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

Income Taxes

Income Taxes

The information presented within this Note excludes discontinued operations. Refer to Note 19, “Discontinued Operations” for further discussion regarding discontinued operations.

The following table sets forth information regarding the Company’s tax provision and applicable tax rates for the periods indicated:

	For the Three Months Ended September 30,						For the Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2023			2022			2023			2022
	(Dollars in thousands)
Combined federal and state income tax (benefit) provision	$	(16,178)		$	16,650		$	(65,619)		$	43,681
Effective income tax rate	(34.2)		%	24.0		%	41.1		%	23.1		%

The Company recorded a net income tax benefit of $16.2 million and $65.6 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, respectively, compared to net income tax expense of $16.7 million and $43.7 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022, respectively.

The Company established a $17.4 million valuation allowance in the first quarter of 2023 against the capital loss carryforward deferred tax asset which resulted from the sale of securities for the amount of deferred tax asset management believed was not more-likely-than-not to be realized. The income tax benefit for the three months ended September 30, 2023 was primarily due to the reversal of the remainder of the federal portion of the valuation allowance established in the first quarter of 2023. The amount reversed during the three months ended September 30, 2023 was $14.6 million. As a result of the execution of the agreement to sell the Company’s insurance agency business in September 2023 and the determination of the resulting capital gain, management determined it to be more-likely-than-not that the Company will realize federal capital losses related to the securities sale. Consequently, the Company reversed the associated federal valuation allowance previously established as management had determined it was more-likely-than-not that the entirety of the federal deferred tax asset related to the loss on such securities sales would be realized. In addition, the Company recognized an income tax benefit associated with a change in management’s estimate of annual pre-tax loss for purposes of determining the Company’s income tax provision.

The income tax benefit for the nine months ended September 30, 2023 was primarily due to pretax losses which largely resulted from losses on sales of available for sale securities in the first quarter of 2023. In addition, during the first quarter of 2023, the Company liquidated Market Street Securities Corporation (“MSSC”), a wholly owned subsidiary, and transferred all of MSSC’s assets to Eastern Bank. In connection with the liquidation and subsequent transfer of securities previously held by MSSC to Eastern Bank, the Company recognized an additional deferred income tax benefit of $23.7 million during the first quarter of 2023. This deferred income tax benefit resulted from a state tax rate change applied to the deferred tax asset related to the securities transferred to Eastern Bank.