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Income Taxes
9 Months Ended
Oct. 31, 2018
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes

Change in Valuation Allowance

The Company records net deferred tax assets to the extent the Company believes these assets will more likely than not be realized. The valuation allowance was $2.2 million at October 31, 2018 and January 31, 2018.

 

Income Tax Expense

Income tax expenses consist of federal, state and foreign income taxes. The statutory rate is the US rate. Reconciling items to the effective rate are foreign dividend income, foreign income subject to US tax, tax deductions for restricted stock vesting, company borrowing structures, and other permanent tax differences.

 

Tax Reform

On December 22, 2017, new federal tax reform legislation was enacted in the United States, resulting in significant changes from previous tax law.  The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the Tax Act) reduced the federal corporate income tax rate to 21% from 35% effective January 1, 2018.  As a result of the Tax Act, the Company applied a blended US statutory federal income tax rate of 33.81% for the year ended January 31, 2018. The Tax Act requires the Company to recognize the effect of the tax law changes in the period of enactment, such as determining the transition tax (see below), re-measuring the Company’s US deferred tax assets as well as reassessing the net realizability of the Company’s deferred tax assets. The Company completed this re-measurement and reassessment in the most recently completed fiscal year. 

 

The Company previously considered substantially all of the earnings in their non-US subsidiaries to be indefinitely reinvested outside the US and, accordingly, recorded no deferred income taxes on such earnings.  At this time the Company has fully analyzed the applicable provisions of the Tax Act, and the intention with respect to unremitted foreign earnings is to continue to indefinitely reinvest outside the US those earnings needed for working capital or additional foreign investment. Apart from the transition tax, any incremental deferred income taxes on the unremitted foreign earnings and profits are not expected to be material. 

 

While the Tax Act provides for a modified territorial tax system, beginning in the fiscal year ending January 31, 2019, it includes two new US tax base erosion provisions, the Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income (“GILTI”) provisions and the Base-Erosion and Anti-Abuse Tax (“BEAT”) provisions. The GILTI provisions require the Company to include in its US income tax return foreign subsidiary earnings in excess of an allowable return on the foreign subsidiary’s tangible assets. The Company does not expect that the GILTI income inclusion will result in significant US tax beginning in the current fiscal year ending January 31, 2019. The BEAT provisions in the Tax Act eliminates the deduction of certain base-erosion payments made to related foreign corporations and impose a minimum tax if greater than regular tax. The Company does not expect that the BEAT provision will result in significant US tax beginning in FY19. In addition, the Company intends to account for the GILTI tax in the period in which it is incurred, and therefore has not provided any deferred tax impacts of GILTI in its unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for the three and nine months ended October 31, 2018.