Income Taxes

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2020

(In Thousands)

The following table is a summary of the Company’s temporary differences between the tax basis of assets and liabilities and their financial reporting amounts that give rise to deferred income tax assets and liabilities and their approximate tax effects as of the dates presented.



	March 31,		December 31,
	2020		2019
Deferred tax assets
Allowance for credit losses	$	30,528	$	14,304
Loans	11,573		10,284
Deferred compensation	9,213		12,050
Impairment of assets	1,141		1,108
Net operating loss carryforwards	6,916		9,387
Lease liabilities under operating leases	22,745		22,686
Other	1,635		934
Total deferred tax assets	83,751		70,753
Deferred tax liabilities
Net unrealized gains on securities	4,880		190
Investment in partnerships	877		967
Fixed assets	2,951		2,952
Mortgage servicing rights	11,718		13,472
Junior subordinated debt	2,282		2,304
Lease right-of-use asset	21,747		21,727
Other	1,760		1,859
Total deferred tax liabilities	46,215		43,471
Net deferred tax assets	$	37,536	$	27,282

For the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, the Company recorded a provision for income taxes totaling $773 and $13,590, respectively. The provision for income taxes includes both federal and state income taxes and differs from the statutory rate due to favorable permanent differences. The effective tax rate was 27.80% and 23.15% for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.

The Company and its subsidiary file a consolidated U.S. federal income tax return. The Company is currently open to audit under the statute of limitations by the Internal Revenue Service and the state departments of revenue for the years ending December 31, 2015 through December 31, 2018.

The Company acquired both federal and state net operating losses as part of its previous acquisitions with varying expiration periods. The federal and state net operating losses acquired in its acquisition of Brand Group Holdings, Inc. (“Brand”) were $81,288 and $55,067, respectively, as of the September 1, 2018 acquisition date, all created in 2018. As part of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and corresponding state tax laws, the federal net operating losses and the majority of the state net operating losses created by Brand have an indefinite carryforward period. As of March 31, 2020, there are federal and state net operating losses acquired in the Brand acquisition, without expiration periods of $21,086 and $34,477, respectively. The federal and state net operating losses acquired in the Company’s acquisition of Heritage Financial Group, Inc. (“Heritage”) in 2015 were $18,321 and $16,849, respectively, of which $3,751 and $3,072 remain to be utilized as of March 31, 2020. The net operating losses related to the Heritage acquisition begin to expire in 2029 and are expected to be utilized. Because the benefits are expected to be fully realized, the Company recorded no valuation allowance against the net operating losses for the period ending March 31, 2020.