Government Incentives

6 Months Ended

Aug. 03, 2019

Government Incentives Disclosure [Abstract]

Government Incentives

13. GOVERNMENT INCENTIVES

In fiscal 2015, the Company completed the relocation of its corporate headquarters and distribution operations from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to southern New Jersey. To partially offset the costs of these relocations, the Board of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (“NJEDA”) approved the Company for an incentive package of up to $40,000,000 in benefits under the Grow New Jersey Assistance Program (“Grow NJ”) in the form of transferrable income tax credits over a ten-year period from the State of New Jersey. The award provides annually over a ten-year period up to $7,000 per eligible new full-time job, as defined under Grow NJ, with a requirement that at least 100 eligible jobs be created and subject to an annual award limit of $4,000,000.

The Grow NJ award requires an annual compliance report that includes certification of average annual employment figures after the end of each fiscal year. After the end of the ten-year Grow NJ award earnings period there is a five-year compliance period during which the Company must maintain the average of its annual eligible jobs certified during the preceding ten years or a pro-rata amount up to one-tenth of the previously awarded income tax credits would be subject to recapture and repayment to the State of New Jersey annually during the five-year compliance period. The Company believes the likelihood of any recapture and repayment is remote.

The annual benefit from the Grow NJ award available to the Company is expected to significantly exceed the Company’s annual income tax liability to the State of New Jersey. In order to maximize the realizable value of the incentive package, the Company entered into an agreement with a third party to sell up to 100% of the annual income tax credits awarded to the Company. The Company recognizes its Grow NJ award on an annual basis for each fiscal year based on the realizable value of the award earned and expected to be received, primarily from the sale of the income tax credits, net of any associated costs. The Grow NJ award is reflected in the Company’s consolidated financial statements as a reduction to the costs incurred by the Company in connection with the relocations. The expected realizable amount of the Grow NJ award is included in the consolidated balance sheet in deferred income taxes. As of August 3, 2019, the Company had recorded a deferred tax asset of $3,967,000 related to the NJ Grow award. Of this amount, $2,671,000 relates to the annual award earned in fiscal 2018, the cash proceeds of which are expected to be received during fiscal 2019.In December 2018, the Company received $2,829,000 cash proceeds, net of costs, from the receipt and subsequent sales of the tax credit certificate earned for fiscal 2017. During the three and six months ended August 3, 2019, the Company recognized the cost reduction related to the Grow NJ award in the amount of $580,000 and $1,196,000, respectively, as compared to the three and six months ended August 4, 2018 in which the Company recognized $710,000 and $1,285,000 respectively.