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Income Taxes
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2018
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes

6.  INCOME TAXES:

The Company’s overall effective tax rate on pre-tax income was different than the statutory rate of 21% due primarily to valuation allowances. During the year ended December 31, 2017, the Company recorded an expected benefit for the recovery of the Company’s carryforward Alternative Minimum Tax (“AMT”) credits. During the quarter ended March 31, 2018, the Company recorded income tax expense of approximately $0.4 million related to the Internal Revenue Service effect of a 6.6% sequestration rate on the expected AMT credit.

The Company has recorded a valuation allowance against all deferred tax assets as of March 31, 2018.  Some or all of this valuation allowance may be reversed in future periods against future income. On December 22, 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”) was enacted into law.  The new legislation, which became effective on January 1, 2018, decreased the U.S. corporate federal income tax rate from 35% to 21%. The TCJA also included a number of provisions, including the elimination of loss carrybacks and limitations on the use of future losses, repeal of the AMT regime, the limitation on the deductibility of certain expenses, including interest expense, and changes in the way that capital costs are recovered.

Given the significant complexity of the TCJA and anticipated additional implementation guidance from the Internal Revenue Service, further implications of TCJA may be identified in future periods.  Amounts recorded in the consolidated financial statements are provisional.