Income Taxes |
3 Months Ended |
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Mar. 31, 2019 | |
| Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract] | |
| Income Taxes |
Income Taxes
The Company’s income tax expense was $6.3 million and $5.7 million representing an effective income tax rate of 30.0 percent and 27.8 percent for the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
Management concluded that as of March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, a valuation allowance of $4.9 million was appropriate against certain state net operating losses and certain tax credits. For all other deferred tax assets, management believes it was more likely than not that these deferred tax assets will be realized principally through future taxable income and reversal of existing taxable temporary differences. A net deferred tax asset of $25.6 million and $27.4 million and a net current tax asset of $2.3 million and $8.3 million as of March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively, are included in prepaid expenses and other assets in the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheets.
In February 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-02, Reclassification of Certain Tax Effects from Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Topic 220). This ASU eliminates the stranded tax effects in other comprehensive income resulting from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Tax Act”). Because the amendments only relate to the reclassification of the income tax effects of the Tax Act, the underlying guidance that requires that the effect of a change in tax laws or rates be included in income from continuing operations was not affected. ASU 2018-02 allows a reclassification from accumulated other comprehensive income to retained earnings for stranded tax effects resulting from the Tax Act. The Company adopted this standard as of January 1, 2018, and recorded the impact as an adjustment which increased retained earnings by $399,000 as of the date of adoption.
The Tax Act was enacted into U.S. tax law on December 22, 2017. The Tax Act makes numerous changes to the U.S. tax code, including (although not limited to) reducing the U.S. federal corporate tax rate to 21 percent, eliminating the corporate alternative minimum tax (AMT), limiting deductible interest expense, increasing limitations on certain executive compensation, and enhancing bonus depreciation to provide for full expensing of qualified property. On that same date, the SEC staff also issued SAB 118, which provided guidance regarding financial statement accounting of the tax effects of the Tax Act. SAB 118 provides for the completion of the accounting related effects of the Tax Act in accordance with a measurement period of one year from the Tax Act enactment date. The Company completed its accounting required under ASC 740 in 2018.
The Company is subject to examination by various federal and state tax authorities for certain years ended December 31, 2014 through 2018. Management does not anticipate any material changes in our consolidated financial statements which may arise as a result of these audits or examinations. As of March 31, 2019, the examination by the California Franchise Tax Board for the 2008 and 2009 tax years has closed. The Company recorded a provision expense of $400,000 during the first quarter of 2019 in connection with both the release of an uncertain tax position and the settlement remitted, net of federal benefit. The Company paid $900,000 in connection with the settlement.
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