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Income Taxes
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2012
Income Taxes note [Abstract]  
Income Tax Disclosure [Text Block]
NOTE 9–INCOME TAXES:

Income tax expense for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 was $11.8 million and $13.4 million, compared with $362 thousand and $388 thousand for the same periods in 2011. The Company's year-to-date income tax expense is based on a projected annual effective income tax rate, which excludes discrete tax benefits of $5.8 million recognized year to date. The Company's effective tax rate differs from the Federal statutory tax rate of 35% primarily due to state income taxes on income in Oregon, Hawaii and Idaho, tax exempt income and a discrete tax benefit related to the full reversal of the Company's beginning of year valuation allowance against deferred tax assets. A valuation allowance is recognized for a deferred tax asset if, based on the weight of the available positive and negative evidence, it is more-likely-than-not that some portion of the entire deferred tax asset will not be realized. More weight is given to evidence that can be objectively verified. Primarily as a result of credit losses, the Company had a three year cumulative pre-tax loss position in 2009. A cumulative loss position is considered significant negative evidence in assessing the realizability of a deferred tax asset and is difficult to overcome and accordingly, the Company established a valuation allowance against the net deferred tax asset at September 30, 2009.

During the second quarter 2012, management analyzed the positive and negative evidence to determine if the benefit of its net deferred tax asset will more likely than not be realized. This evidence included the Company reporting its fifth consecutive quarter of profitability, the future reversals of deferred tax assets and deferred tax liabilities over a similar period of time, future expectations of profitability, significant improvement in overall asset quality and related credit/risk metrics and the expectation that we will be able to exit a three-year cumulative pre-tax loss position in 2012. Based on these factors, we determined during the quarter ended June 30, 2012 that we had sufficient objective positive evidence to reverse the remaining valuation allowance.

As a consequence of our initial public offering in February 2012, the Company experienced a change of control within the meaning of Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. Section 382 substantially limits the ability of a corporate taxpayer to use recognized built-in losses and net operating loss carryforwards incurred prior to the change of control against income earned after a change of control. Based on our analysis, the change of control will not result in a loss of deferred tax benefits other than a small impact on deferred tax assets related to state income taxes in Oregon.

The Company's income tax expense for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 includes a discrete tax expense of $508 thousand related to the true up of tax expense due to the filing of the 2011 tax return.  In addition, income tax expense for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 includes discrete tax benefits of zero and $6.3 million, respectively, related to the reversal of the beginning of the year valuation allowance against net deferred tax assets.

At September 30, 2012 we had a net deferred tax asset of $6.4 million compared with a net deferred tax liability of $1.8 million at December 31, 2011. For further discussion of the Company's income taxes see Note 14–Income Taxes in Company's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K.