Income Tax	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2018
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]
Income Taxes	Income Taxes The Company recorded income tax expenses of $0.6 million, a 34.4% effective tax rate for the three months ended March 31, 2018. The effective tax rate is higher than the U.S. statutory rate due mainly to state taxes, income in higher tax jurisdictions, and a Global Intangible Low Taxed Income Inclusion as a result of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") recently issued SAB 118 (Income Tax Accounting Implications of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act) which allows registrants to record provisional amounts during a measurement period. The SAB allows a company to recognize provisional amounts when it does not have the necessary information prepared in reasonable detail to calculate the effect of the change in tax law. Per the SAB, a company should report provisional amounts when the accounting is not complete, but for which a reasonable estimate can be determined. Lawson has included in its 2017 taxable income calculation a provisional amount of approximately $8.4 million representing previously untaxed foreign earnings and profits as of December 31, 2017. The Company has not accrued any federal income tax on this amount as the company is able to utilize federal net operating losses to offset the income. An income tax benefit of $14 thousand was recorded for the three months ended March 31, 2017 as substantially all deferred tax assets were subject to a tax valuation allowance. The Company and its subsidiaries are subject to U.S. Federal income tax, as well as income tax of multiple state and foreign jurisdictions. As of March 31, 2018, the Company is subject to U.S. Federal income tax examinations for the years 2014 through 2016 and income tax examinations from various other jurisdictions for the years 2011 through 2016. Earnings from the Company’s foreign subsidiary are considered to be indefinitely reinvested. A distribution of these non-U.S. earnings in the form of dividends or otherwise may subject the Company to foreign withholding taxes and U.S. federal and state taxes.

Income Tax

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2018

The Company recorded income tax expenses of $0.6 million, a 34.4% effective tax rate for the three months ended March 31, 2018. The effective tax rate is higher than the U.S. statutory rate due mainly to state taxes, income in higher tax jurisdictions, and a Global Intangible Low Taxed Income Inclusion as a result of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") recently issued SAB 118 (Income Tax Accounting Implications of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act) which allows registrants to record provisional amounts during a measurement period. The SAB allows a company to recognize provisional amounts when it does not have the necessary information prepared in reasonable detail to calculate the effect of the change in tax law. Per the SAB, a company should report provisional amounts when the accounting is not complete, but for which a reasonable estimate can be determined. Lawson has included in its 2017 taxable income calculation a provisional amount of approximately $8.4 million representing previously untaxed foreign earnings and profits as of December 31, 2017. The Company has not accrued any federal income tax on this amount as the company is able to utilize federal net operating losses to offset the income. An income tax benefit of $14 thousand was recorded for the three months ended March 31, 2017 as substantially all deferred tax assets were subject to a tax valuation allowance.

The Company and its subsidiaries are subject to U.S. Federal income tax, as well as income tax of multiple state and foreign jurisdictions. As of March 31, 2018, the Company is subject to U.S. Federal income tax examinations for the years 2014 through 2016 and income tax examinations from various other jurisdictions for the years 2011 through 2016.

Earnings from the Company’s foreign subsidiary are considered to be indefinitely reinvested. A distribution of these non-U.S. earnings in the form of dividends or otherwise may subject the Company to foreign withholding taxes and U.S. federal and state taxes.