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Income Taxes
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2013
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes
Income Taxes

In assessing the realizability of deferred tax assets (“DTA”), management considers whether it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the DTA will or will not be realized. The Company's ultimate realization of the DTA is dependent upon the generation of future taxable income during the periods in which temporary differences become deductible. Management considers the nature and amount of historical and projected future taxable income, the scheduled reversal of deferred tax assets and liabilities, and available tax planning strategies in making this assessment. The amount of deferred taxes recognized could be impacted by changes to any of these variables.

During the three and six months ended June 30, 2013, the Company recorded a $51.7 million and $51.8 million income tax benefit, respectively, which resulted primarily from reversing substantially all of the Company's DTA valuation allowance at December 31, 2012 of $41.6 million, the reversal of certain previously written-off deferred tax benefits of $8.5 million resulting from a reassessment of the Company's Internal Revenue Code ("IRC") Section 382 limitations, and a current tax benefit of $1.7 million. During the three and six months ended June 30, 2012, the Company recorded a $25 thousand and $50 thousand income tax provision, respectively.

The DTA valuation allowance was established during 2009 due to uncertainty at the time regarding the Company's ability to generate sufficient future taxable income to fully realize the benefit of the net DTA. Based on its earnings performance trend, expected continued profitability and improvements in the Company's financial condition; management determined it was more likely than not that a significant portion of our DTA would be realized.

The Company has evaluated our future taxable earnings projections and as a result, the entire amount of the deferred tax valuation allowance reversal was determined to be a discrete item.

During the second quarter of 2013, management completed its reassessment of the IRC Section 382 limitations, resulting from the Company's capital raise in January 2011. As a result of this reassessment, $8.5 million of tax benefits previously impaired were restored to the deferred tax account for federal net operating losses ("NOL's"), federal tax credits and state NOL's.

As of June 30, 2013, the net deferred tax asset was $50.4 million. Included in the net deferred taxes are NOL's (tax affected) for are federal taxes of $28.7 million, Oregon state taxes of $4.7 million and Idaho state taxes of $3.9 million. Also included in the net deferred taxes are federal and state tax credits of $0.9 million and $0.3 million, respectively. This is compared with a deferred tax liability as of December 31, 2012 of $2.3 million (pertaining to available-for-sale securities) as the balance of the deferred tax assets was fully reserved. There are a number of tax issues that impact the deferred tax asset balance including changes in temporary differences between the financial statement recognition of revenue and expenses, estimates as to the deductibility of prior losses and potential consequence of Section 382 of the IRC. See also “Critical Accounting Policies and Accounting Estimates - Deferred Income Taxes” included in Part II, Item 7 of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012.