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Income Taxes

9 Months Ended

Nov. 30, 2020

(13)	Income Taxes

The Company’s provision for income taxes consists of federal, foreign, and state taxes necessary to align the Company’s year-to-date tax provision with the annual effective rate that it expects to achieve for the full year. At each interim period, the Company updates its estimate of the annual effective tax rate and records cumulative adjustments, as necessary.

On March 27, 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”) was enacted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The CARES Act made various tax law changes, including among other things (i) increased the limitation under IRC Section 163(j) for 2019 and 2020 to permit additional expensing of interest (ii) enacted technical corrections so that qualified improvement property can be immediately expensed under IRC Section 168(k) and net operating losses arising in tax years beginning in 2017 and ending in 2018 can be carried back two years and carried forward twenty years without a taxable income limitation as opposed to carried forward indefinitely, and (iii) made modifications to the federal net operating loss rules including permitting federal net operating losses incurred in 2018, 2019, and 2020 to be carried back to the five preceding taxable years. With respect to the technical correction to net operating losses, the Company recorded a discrete income tax provision of $4,275 during the nine months ended November 30, 2020, as its valuation allowance related to net operating losses with limited carryforward periods increased.

For the three months ended November 30, 2020, the Company recorded an income tax provision of $2,334, which includes a discrete income tax benefit of $542 related primarily to finalization of the federal and certain state tax return filings. For the three months ended November 30, 2019, the Company recorded an income tax provision of $2,720, which includes a discrete income tax provision of $1,035. The Company recorded a discrete tax provision of $1,153 in connection with excluding the U.S. tax jurisdiction from the estimated annual effective tax rate and a discrete tax benefit of $118 primarily related to the reversal of uncertain tax provision liabilities as a result of the lapse of the applicable statute of limitations, the remeasurement of deferred tax assets and liabilities for enacted state law changes, offset by an income tax provision related to the finalization of federal and state tax filings during the quarter ended November 30, 2019.

The effective tax rates for the three months ended November 30, 2020 and 2019 were an income tax provision of 11.8% on pre-tax income of $19,774 and an income tax provision of 66.6% on pre-tax income of $4,087, respectively. The effective tax rate for the three months ended November 30, 2020 differs from the U.S. statutory rate of 21% primarily due to the anticipated reversal of a portion of the U.S. valuation allowance based on projected current year earnings, immediate U.S. taxation of foreign earnings, non-controlling interest related to EyeLock LLC, state and local income taxes, nondeductible permanent differences, and income taxed in foreign jurisdictions at varying tax rates. The effective tax rate for the three months ended November 30, 2019 differed from the statutory rate of 21% primarily due to the calculation of the U.S. tax provision on a discrete basis, the U.S. taxation of foreign earnings, nondeductible permanent differences, non-controlling interest related to EyeLock LLC, an increase in the valuation allowance, state and local income taxes, and income taxed in foreign jurisdictions at varying tax rates.

For the nine months ended November 30, 2020, the Company recorded an income tax provision of $6,724, which includes a discrete income tax provision of $3,609. The Company recorded a discrete tax provision of $4,275 related to an increase in valuation allowance as a result of the technical correction to net operating losses as provided in the CARES Act, and a discrete income tax benefit of $697 related to the finalization of federal and state filings during the quarter ended November 30 2020, and the reversal of uncertain tax provision liabilities as a result of the lapse of the applicable statute of limitations, offset with a discrete tax provision of $31 related to the accrual for interest for unrecognized tax benefits. For the nine months ended November 30, 2019, the Company recorded an income tax provision of $1,190, which includes a discrete income tax benefit of $345. The Company recorded a discrete tax benefit of $50 in connection with excluding the U.S. tax jurisdiction from the estimated annual effective tax rate, and a discrete income tax benefit of $295 primarily related to the reversal of uncertain tax provision liabilities as a result of the lapse of the applicable statute of limitations, the remeasurement of deferred tax assets and liabilities for enacted state law changes, offset by an income tax provision related to the finalization of federal and state tax filings during the quarter ended November 30, 2019.

The effective tax rates for the nine months ended November 30, 2020 and 2019 were an income tax provision of 31.1% on pre-tax income of $21,614 and an income tax provision of 17.1% on a pre-tax loss of $6,979, respectively. The effective tax rate for the nine months ended November 30, 2020 differs from the U.S. statutory rate of 21% primarily due to the anticipated reversal of a portion of the U.S. valuation allowance based on projected current year earnings, immediate U.S. taxation of foreign earnings, non-controlling interest related to EyeLock LLC, state and local income taxes, nondeductible permanent differences, and income taxed in foreign jurisdictions at

varying tax rates. The effective tax rate for the nine months ended November 30, 2019 differed from the statutory rate of 21% primarily due to the calculation of the U.S. taxation provision on a discrete basis, the U.S. taxation of foreign earnings, non-deductible permanent differences, non-controlling interest related to EyeLock LLC, an increase in the valuation allowance, state and local income taxes, and income taxed in foreign jurisdictions at varying tax rates.

At November 30, 2020, the Company had an uncertain tax position liability of $1,123, including interest and penalties. The unrecognized tax benefits include amounts related to various U.S. federal, state and local, and foreign tax issues.

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The entire disclosure for income taxes. Disclosures may include net deferred tax liability or asset recognized in an enterprise's statement of financial position, net change during the year in the total valuation allowance, approximate tax effect of each type of temporary difference and carryforward that gives rise to a significant portion of deferred tax liabilities and deferred tax assets, utilization of a tax carryback, and tax uncertainties information.

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