Income Taxes

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2021

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

Income Taxes

INCOME TAXES

The Company’s effective income tax rate for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 was higher than the U.S. federal statutory rate of 21.0% primarily resulting from state income taxes and non-deductible officer’s compensation.

The Company’s effective income tax rate for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 reflect a tax benefit on a pretax loss, while the annual estimated effective tax rate for 2020 reflected tax expense on pretax income. The effective income tax rate for both periods were higher than the U.S. federal statutory rate of 21.0% primarily resulting from state income taxes and non-deductible officer’s compensation. The effective income tax rate for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 was also higher due to the establishment of a valuation allowance against current year state income tax losses in certain jurisdictions that don’t require combined reporting and from vesting of restricted stock compensation in excess of book deductions. The Company’s annual estimated effective tax rate for 2020 included a 14% tax benefit from a current year federal taxable loss which will be carried back to a pre-2018 tax year, reducing the effective income tax rate applied to the pretax loss for both the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020.