INCOME TAXES

12 Months Ended

Jan. 31, 2022

INCOME TAXES

INCOME TAXES

8. INCOME TAXES

The provision for income taxes is based on the following pretax income (loss):

	Years Ended January 31,
Domestic and Foreign Pretax Income	2022		2021
Domestic	$	1,519	$	8,147
Foreign		14,634		35,766
Total	$	16,153	$	43,913

	Years Ended January 31,
	2022		2021
Income Tax Expense (Benefit)
Current:
Federal	($171)		$	41
State and other taxes		88		54
Foreign		4,205		5,483
Total Current Tax Expense	$	4,122	$	5,578
Deferred:
Domestic	$	526	$	3,005
Foreign		133		----
Total Deferred Tax Expense	$	659	$	3,005
Total Income Taxes	$	4,781	$	8,583

The following is a reconciliation of the effective income tax rate to the Federal statutory rate:

	Years Ended January 31,
	2022			2021
Statutory rate		21.00	%		21.00	%
State Income Taxes, Net of Federal Tax Benefit		(0.01	)		0.90
Adjustment to Deferred		(0.26	)		0.29
GILTI		4.11			4.43
Permanent Differences		(0.83	)		(0.09	)
Valuation Allowance-Deferred Tax Asset		4.81			2.20
Foreign Tax Credit		(7.34	)		(7.61	)
Argentina Flow Through Loss		1.36			0.58
Foreign Dividend & Subpart F		(5.27	)		2.14
Foreign Rate Differential		9.22			(4.01	)
Change in State Apportionment Rate		3.52			-
Other		(0.71	)		(0.28	)
Effective Rate		29.60	%		19.55	%

            The tax effects of temporary cumulative differences which give rise to deferred tax assets are summarized as follows:

	Years Ended January 31,
	2022			2021
Deferred tax assets:
Inventories	$	806		$	955
US tax loss carryforwards, including work opportunity credit		167			167
Accounts receivable and accrued rebates		145			378
Accrued compensation and other		211			446
India reserves - US deduction		32			43
Equity based compensation		807			535
Foreign tax credit carry-forward		3,209			2,430
State and local carry-forwards		16			287
Depreciation and amortization		(186	)		(265	)
Prepaid expenses		(219	)		(121	)
Brazil write-down		196			220
Right-of-use asset		(738	)		(239	)
Operating lease liability		762			241
Other		93			93
Deferred tax asset		5,282			5,170
Less valuation allowance		(3,210	)		(2,439	)
Net deferred tax asset	$	2,072		$	2,731

Tax Reform

On December 22, 2017, 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. The Tax Act requires us to recognize the effect of the tax law changes in the period of enactment, such as determining the transition tax, re-measuring our US deferred tax assets as well as reassessing the net realizability of our deferred tax assets. The Company completed this re-measurement and reassessment in FY18. While the Tax Act provides for a modified territorial tax system, beginning in 2018, it includes two new U.S. 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 U.S. income tax return foreign subsidiary earnings in excess of an allowable return on the foreign subsidiary’s tangible assets. Re-measurement and reassessment of the GILTI tax resulted in a charge to tax expense of $0.7 million and $1.1 million in FY22 and FY21, respectively. The Company intends to account for the GILTI tax in the period in which it is incurred. Though this non-cash expense (due to available NOL’s) had a materially negative impact on FY22 earnings, the Tax Act also changes the taxation of foreign earnings, and companies generally will not be subject to United States federal income taxes upon the receipt of dividends from foreign subsidiaries.

We previously considered substantially all of the earnings in our non-U.S. subsidiaries to be indefinitely reinvested outside the U.S. and, accordingly, recorded no deferred income taxes on such earnings. At this time, the applicable provisions of the Tax Act have been fully analyzed and our intention with respect to unremitted foreign earnings is to continue to indefinitely reinvest outside the U.S. those earnings needed for working capital or additional foreign investment. The Company strategically employs a dividend plan with respect to our non-U.S. subsidiaries subject to subsidiary profitability, cash requirements and withholding taxes. During FY22 the Company’s subsidiaries in Canada, Uruguay and Hong Kong declared and paid dividends of $2.6 million, $1.0 million and $4.4 million respectively. Withholding taxes totaling $0.2 million are included in income tax expense. No dividends were proposed by management or declared by our Board of Directors for our China subsidiary in FY22 or FY21.

Income Tax Audits

The Company is subject to US federal income tax, as well as income tax in multiple US state and local jurisdictions and a number of foreign jurisdictions. Returns for the years since FY18 are still open based on statutes of limitation only.

Chinese tax authorities have performed limited reviews on all Chinese subsidiaries as of tax years 2008 through 2018 with no significant issues noted and we believe our tax positions are reasonably stated as of January 31, 2022. Weifang Meiyang Products Co., Ltd. (“Meiyang”), one of our Chinese operations, was changed to a trading company from a manufacturing company in Q1 FY16 and all direct workers and equipment were transferred from Meiyang to Weifang Lakeland Safety Products Co., Ltd., (“WF”), another entity of our Chinese operation thereby reducing our tax exposure. The 2021 tax review will be performed before May 30, 2022 in China.

Change in Valuation Allowance

We record net deferred tax assets to the extent we believe these assets will more likely than not be realized. The valuation allowance for the year ended January 31, 2022 and January 31, 2021 was $3.2 million and $2.4 million, respectively.