Income Taxes (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2017

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

Consolidated (loss) income before taxes and non-controlling interests for domestic and foreign operations

Consolidated loss before taxes and non-controlling interests for domestic and foreign operations is as follows:

	Year Ended December 31, 2017
	(in thousands)
Domestic	$	(8,386	)
Foreign	(1,175		)
Total loss before income taxes	$	(9,561	)

Components of income tax expense (benefit)

Components of income tax benefit consist of the following:

	Year Ended December 31, 2017
	(in thousands)
Current
Federal	$	—
State and local	—
Total current tax benefit	$	—
Deferred
Federal	$	(978	)
State and local	(3		)
Total deferred tax benefit	$	(981	)
Total tax benefit	$	(981	)

Reconciliation of the U.S. statutory rate to the effective tax rate

The provision for income taxes from operations differs from the amount of income tax computed by applying the applicable U.S. statutory federal income tax rate to income before provision for income taxes. A reconciliation of the U.S. statutory rate to the effective tax rate is presented below:

	Year Ended December 31, 2017
U.S statutory tax rate	35.0	%
Foreign rate differential	(4.3	)
Rate effect from flow-through entity	(34.8	)
Rate change impact due to tax reform	(7.0	)
Partnership outside basis difference	26.2
Other	(4.9	)
Effective tax rate	10.2	%

Significant components of deferred tax assets and liabilities

Significant components of Switch, Inc.'s deferred tax assets and liabilities were as follows as of:

	December 31,
	2017
	(in thousands)
Deferred tax assets
Net operating loss carryforwards	$	981
Subtotal	981
Valuation allowance	—
Total deferred tax assets	$	981
Deferred tax liabilities
Other	—
Total deferred tax liabilities	$	—
Net deferred tax assets	$	981