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Tax Receivable Agreement
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019
Other Liabilities Disclosure [Abstract]  
Tax Receivable Agreement TAX RECEIVABLE AGREEMENT
The Company is a party to a TRA with all of the holders of Class A Common Units of the Operating Company, all the holders of Class A Units of the San Francisco Venture, and prior holders of Class A common Units of the Operating Company and prior holders of Class A Units of the San Francisco Venture that have exchanged their holdings for Class A common shares (as parties to the TRA, the “TRA Parties”). The TRA provides for payment by the Company to the TRA Parties or their successors of 85% of the amount of cash savings, if any, in income tax the Company realizes as a result of:
(a) Increases in the Company’s tax basis attributable to exchanges of Class A Common Units of the Operating Company for Class A common shares of the Company or cash or certain other taxable acquisitions of equity interests by the Operating Company.
The Company expects that basis adjustments resulting from these transactions, if they occur, are likely to reduce the amount of income tax the Company would otherwise be required to pay in the future.
(b) Allocations that result from the application of the principles of Section 704(c) of the Code.
Section 704(c) of the Code, and the U.S. Treasury regulations promulgated thereunder, require that items of income, gain, loss and deduction that are attributable to the Operating Company’s directly and indirectly held property, including property contributed to the Operating Company pursuant to the Formation Transactions and the property held by the Operating Company prior to the Formation Transactions, must be
allocated among the members of the Operating Company to take into account the difference between the fair market value and the adjusted tax basis of such assets on May 2, 2016. As a result, the Operating Company will be required to make certain special allocations of its items of income, gain, loss and deduction that are attributable to such assets. These allocations, like the increases in tax basis described above, are likely to reduce the amount of income tax the Company would otherwise be required to pay in the future.
(c) Tax benefits related to imputed interest or guaranteed payments deemed to be paid or incurred by the Company as a result of the TRA.
At December 31, 2019 and 2018, the Company’s consolidated balance sheets include liabilities of $172.6 million and $169.5 million, respectively, for payments expected to be made under certain components of the TRA which the Company deems to be probable and estimable. Management deems a TRA payment related to the benefits expected to be received by the Company under the application of Section 704(c) of the Code to be probable and estimable when an event occurs that results in the Company measuring the Operating Company’s direct or indirectly held property at fair value in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet or the sale of such property at fair value. Either of these activities are indicators that the difference between the fair market value of the property and the adjusted tax basis has been or will be realized, resulting in special allocations of income, gain, loss or deduction that are likely to reduce the amount of income taxes that the Company would otherwise pay. The Company may record additional TRA liabilities related to properties not currently held at fair value when those properties are recognized or realized at fair value. Furthermore, the Company may record additional liabilities under the TRA if and when TRA Parties exchange Class A Common Units of the Operating Company for the Company’s Class A common shares or other equity transactions that impact the Holding Company’s ownership in the Operating Company. During the year ended December 31, 2017, the Company adjusted its recorded TRA liability as a result of equity transactions during the period, including the IPO and private placement. Changes in the Company’s estimates of the utilization of its deferred tax attributes and tax rates in effect may also result in subsequent changes to the amount of TRA liabilities recorded. At the end of the 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Tax Act”) was enacted into law, which reduced the federal corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%. As a result of this reduction, the value of the benefit that the Company will receive from tax attributes and tax items that are the subject of the TRA was reduced and, as a result, the TRA liability was also reduced. During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company adjusted its recorded TRA liability as a result of exchanges of Class A Common Units of the Operating Company for the Company’s Class A common shares as well as certain other equity transactions associated with share-based compensation. As a result of these changes, the value of the benefit that the Company will receive from tax attributes and tax items that are the subject of the TRA increased and, as a result, the TRA liability was increased.
The term of the TRA will continue until all such tax benefits under the agreement have been utilized or expired, unless the Company exercises its right to terminate the TRA for an amount based on an agreed value of payments remaining to be made under the agreement. No TRA payments were made during the years ended December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017.