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Income Taxes
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2019
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes

Note 10 — Income Taxes

 

For interim income tax reporting, we are required to estimate our annual effective tax rate and apply it to year-to-date pre-tax income/loss excluding unusual or infrequently occurring discrete items. Tax jurisdictions with losses for which tax benefits cannot be realized are excluded.

 

For the three months ended March 31, 2019, we recorded income tax from continuing operations of $0.0 million on a loss of $0.9 million. For the three months ended March 31, 2018, we recorded income tax of $0.0 million on a loss of $1.7 million. The effective income tax rate for the three months ended March 31, 2019 differs from the U.S. federal statutory rate of 21% primarily due to a valuation allowance on various deferred tax assets.

 

Adjustments were made to previous financial statements as a result of the Tax Reform Act passed on December 22, 2017. Most significantly, the elimination of the corporate alternative minimum tax and ability to file for refunds of minimum tax credit carryovers resulted in reclassification of $2.2 million as a receivable, half of which is shown as a current receivable on the balance sheet to reflect the cash refund due later in 2019 (with the remainder due in years 2020 through 2022).

 

We accrue for the effects of uncertain tax positions and the related potential penalties and interest. For the three months ending March 31, 2019 we reversed $607k of the liability related to our Legacy businesses’ foreign subsidiaries, as these liabilities stay with the foreign entities that were sold during the quarter. The tax benefit was recorded in discontinued operations, where the liabilities of $0.6 million and $0.9 million as of December 31, 2018 and March 31, 2018, respectively, had previously been recorded.

 

We file income tax returns in multiple jurisdictions and are subject to review by various U.S and foreign taxing authorities. Our U.S. federal income tax returns for 2015 through 2018 are subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service. With few exceptions, we are no longer subject to examination by foreign tax jurisdictions or state and local tax jurisdictions for years before 2012. In the event that we have determined not to file tax returns with a particular state or city, all years remain subject to examination by the tax jurisdiction.