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Income and Other Taxes
3 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2020
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income and Other Taxes

NOTE 10.            Income and Other Taxes

During each of the three months ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, the Company recorded income tax expense of approximately $126,000 and $14,000, respectively. Income tax expense for the three months ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 is composed primarily of state tax expense. The increase in income tax expense is due to increased revenues and the State of California’s temporary suspension of NOL utilization.

For the three months ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, the effective tax rate on continuing operations was 0.4% and 0.0%, respectively. The increased tax rate for the three months ended December 31, 2020 is primarily due to increased revenue in the three months ended December 31, 2020 and the State of California’s temporary suspension of NOL utilization. The Company uses some estimates to forecast permanent differences between book and tax accounting.

We have not provided for income taxes on non-U.S. subsidiaries’ undistributed earnings as of December 31, 2020 because we plan to indefinitely reinvest the unremitted earnings of our non-U.S. subsidiaries and all of our non-U.S. subsidiaries historically have negative earnings and profits.

All deferred tax assets have a full valuation allowance at December 31, 2020. On a quarterly basis, the Company evaluates the positive and negative evidence to assess whether the more likely than not criteria has been satisfied in determining whether there will be further adjustments to the valuation allowance.

During the three months ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, there were no material increases or decreases in unrecognized tax benefits. As of December 31, 2020 and September 30, 2020, we had approximately $0.6 million of interest and penalties accrued as tax liabilities on our balance sheet. We expect that $0.4 million of uncertain tax benefit will be settled within the next 12 months, which will impact the effective tax rate. Interest that is accrued on tax liabilities is recorded within interest expense on the condensed consolidated statements of operations.