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Income Taxes (Tables)
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2015
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Schedule of Reconciliation of Beginning and Ending Amount of Unrecognized Tax Benefits
The Company follows the provisions of the Financial Accounting Standards Codification 740 (“ASC 740”), “Income Taxes.” A reconciliation of the beginning and ending amount of unrecognized tax benefits is as follows:
 
2015
 
2014
 
2013
Beginning of year
$
8,288,000

 
$
7,351,000

 
$
4,168,000

Additions based on tax positions related to the current year
1,765,000

 
1,328,000

 
1,595,000

Additions for tax positions in prior years
428,000

 
634,000

 
1,633,000

Reductions for tax positions in prior years
(336,000
)
 
(676,000
)
 
(45,000
)
Reductions as a result of completed audit examinations
(4,162,000
)
 

 

Reductions as a result of a lapse of the applicable statute of limitations
(608,000
)
 
(349,000
)
 

End of year
$
5,375,000

 
$
8,288,000

 
$
7,351,000

Schedule of Components of Provision For Income Taxes
The components of the provision for income taxes are as follows:
 
 
2015
 
2014
 
2013
Currently payable:
 
 
 
 
 
Federal
$
129,379,597

 
$
108,689,911

 
$
95,285,094

State
2,908,000

 
2,236,000

 
3,259,000

Foreign
276,000

 
978,000

 
1,353,000

Total
132,563,597

 
111,903,911

 
99,897,094

Net deferred:
 
 
 
 
 
Primarily federal
12,558,000

 
14,818,000

 
5,237,000

Provision for income taxes
$
145,121,597

 
$
126,721,911

 
$
105,134,094

Schedule of Effective Income Tax Rates Different From Statutory Federal Income Tax Rates
The effective income tax rates are different from the statutory federal income tax rates for the following reasons:
 
2015
 
2014
 
2013
Statutory federal income tax rate
35.00
 %
 
35.00
 %
 
35.0
 %
State income taxes, net of federal income tax benefit
0.40

 
0.30

 
0.6

Domestic production exclusion
(2.80
)
 
(2.60
)
 
(3.1
)
Research tax credit (1)
(0.80
)
 
(2.00
)
 
(0.4
)
Reduction in Reserve for Uncertain Tax Provisions
(0.60
)
 

 

Other
0.10

 
(0.20
)
 
(0.1
)
Effective income tax rate
31.30
 %
 
30.50
 %
 
32.0
 %

(1) - Research tax credits applied in 2014 related to prior tax year amended tax filings were approximately 1.3 percentage points of the 2 percentage point reduction in the effective income tax rate.

Schedule of Deferred Income Tax Assets And Liabilities
The tax effect of temporary differences which give rise to deferred income tax assets and liabilities at December 31, 2015 and 2014, are as follows: 
 
2015
 
2014
 
Current
 
Non-Current
 
Current
 
Non-Current
Assets:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Accruals not currently deductible
$
3,890,858

 
$
266,802

 
$
2,605,711

 
$
224,803

Stock based compensation
16,636,615

 
3,723,490

 
13,508,845

 
2,508,304

Impairment loss on available-for-sale securities

 
73,954

 

 
135,724

Other
3,839,115

 
15,755

 
4,440,407

 
19,765

Total deferred income tax assets
24,366,588

 
4,080,001

 
20,554,963

 
2,888,596

Liabilities:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Excess tax over book depreciation

 
(53,538,861
)
 

 
(46,017,949
)
Goodwill

 
(16,047,068
)
 

 
(8,868,168
)
Unrealized gain on investments

 
(961,980
)
 

 
(6,368,670
)
Intangible assets

 
(3,056,712
)
 

 
(1,205,230
)
Other
(2,114,430
)
 

 
(1,117,956
)
 

Net deferred income taxes
$
22,252,158

 
$
(69,524,620
)
 
$
19,437,007

 
$
(59,571,421
)