Income Taxes

3 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2022

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

Income Taxes

INCOME TAXES

Under ASC Topic 740, Accounting for Income Taxes, we must periodically evaluate deferred tax assets to determine if it is more-likely-than-not that the future tax benefits will be realized. If the negative evidence outweighs the positive, a valuation allowance must be recognized to reduce the net carrying amount of the deferred tax assets to the amount more-likely-than-not to be realized.

Evaluating the need for, and amount of, a valuation allowance for deferred tax assets often requires significant judgment and extensive analysis of all available evidence on a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction basis. Such judgments require us to interpret existing tax law and other published guidance as applied to our circumstances. As part of this assessment, we consider both positive and negative evidence. The weight given to the potential effect of positive and negative evidence must be commensurate with the extent to which the strength of the evidence can be objectively verified. We generally consider the following, but are not limited to, objectively verified evidence to determine the likelihood of realization of the deferred tax assets:

•Our current financial position and our historical results of operations for recent years. We generally consider cumulative pre-tax losses in the three-year period ending with the current quarter or a projected three-year cumulative loss position within the next 12 months following the current quarter to be significant negative evidence.

•A pattern of objectively-measured historical and current financial reporting loss trend is heavily weighted as a source of negative evidence.

•Sources of taxable income of the appropriate character. Future realization of deferred tax assets is dependent on projected taxable income of the appropriate character. Future reversals of existing temporary differences are heavily weighted sources of objectively verifiable evidence. Projections of future taxable income exclusive of reversing temporary differences are a source of positive evidence only when the projections are combined with a history of recent profits and current financial trends and can be reasonably estimated.

•Carry-back and carry-forward periods available. The carry-back and carry-forward periods permitted under the tax law are objectively verified evidence.

•Tax planning strategies. Tax planning strategies can be, depending on their nature, heavily-weighted sources of objectively verifiable positive evidence when the strategies are available and can be reasonably executed. We consider tax planning strategies only if they are feasible and justifiable considering our current operations and our strategic plan. Tax planning strategies, if executed, may accelerate the recovery of a deferred tax asset so the tax benefit of the deferred tax asset can be carried back.

Management assesses the available positive and negative evidence to estimate whether sufficient future taxable income will be generated to permit use of the existing deferred tax assets. A significant new piece of objective negative evidence evaluated was the three-year cumulative losses projected to incur within the next twelve months.

Such objective evidence limits the ability to consider other subjective evidence, such as our projections for future growth.

Based on this evaluation, as of June 30, 2022, Management determined that it was no longer more likely than not that the tax benefits from the existing U.S deferred tax assets would be realized. Accordingly, we recorded a $14.2 million valuation allowance in the first quarter of fiscal 2023 against our domestic uncovered net deferred tax assets.