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Income Taxes
6 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2014
Income Taxes [Abstract]  
Income Taxes

NOTE 2: Income Taxes

 

The Company’s provision for income taxes differs from the statutory rate primarily due to estimated federal and state benefits generated from estimated excess federal and Oklahoma percentage depletion, which are permanent tax benefits.

 

Both excess federal percentage depletion, which is limited to certain production volumes and by certain income levels, and excess Oklahoma percentage depletion, which has no limitation on production volume, reduce estimated taxable income or add to estimated taxable loss projected for any year. The federal and Oklahoma excess percentage depletion estimates will be updated throughout the year until finalized with detailed well-by-well calculations at fiscal year-end.  Federal and Oklahoma excess percentage depletion, when a provision for income taxes is recorded, decreases the effective tax rate, while the effect is to increase the effective tax rate when a benefit for income taxes is recorded. The benefits of federal and Oklahoma excess percentage depletion are not directly related to the amount of pre-tax income recorded in a period. Accordingly, in periods where a recorded pre-tax income or loss is relatively small, the proportional effect of these items on the effective tax rate may be significant. The effective tax rate for the six months ended March 31, 2014, was 32% as compared to 31% for the six months ended March 31, 2013.  The effective tax rate for the quarter ended March 31, 2014, was 33% as compared to 42% for the quarter ended March 31, 2013. The effective tax rate for the 2013 second quarter is higher than the statutory rate as a result of an increase in the estimated annual effective tax rate during the second quarter of the year as projected pre-tax income at March 31, 2013, was higher than the projections made at December 31, 2012.