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Income Taxes
3 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2018
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes

NOTE 5 — INCOME TAXES

At June 30, 2018, the Company had $1.0 million of U.S. federal net operating loss (“NOL”) carry forwards. These losses do not expire but are limited to utilization of 80% of taxable income in any one year. At June 30, 2018 the Company had approximately $8.0 million of U.S. state net operating loss carry forwards.  The tax benefits related to these state net operating loss carry forwards and future deductible temporary differences are recorded to the extent management believes it is more likely than not that such benefits will be realized. The income of foreign subsidiaries before taxes was $60,000 for the quarter ended June 30, 2018 as compared to a loss before taxes of $133,000 for the quarter ended June 30, 2017, respectively.       

The Company analyzed the future reasonability of recognizing its deferred tax assets at June 30, 2018. As a result, the Company concluded that a valuation allowance of approximately $716,000 would be recorded against the assets.

Although the Company generated a net operating loss, it recorded income tax expense of approximately $48,000 during the three months ended June 30, 2018, resulting from the change in its deferred tax asset balance. During the three months ended June 30, 2017, the Company recorded an income tax benefit of approximately $65,000, resulting from a tax refund related to a prior period.  

The Company is subject to examination and assessment by tax authorities in numerous jurisdictions. As of June 30, 2018, the Company’s open tax years for examination for U.S. federal tax are 2014-2017, and for U.S. states’ tax are 2013-2017. Based on the outcome of tax examinations or due to the expiration of statutes of limitations, it is reasonably possible that the unrecognized tax benefits related to uncertain tax positions taken in previously filed returns may be different from the liabilities that have been recorded for these unrecognized tax benefits. As a result, the Company may be subject to additional tax expense.

In December 2017, President Trump signed into law H.R.1, commonly known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”), which makes significant changes to the Internal Revenue Code. Subsequent to enactment of the TCJA in December 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission staff issued Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 118 (“SAB 118”) to provide guidance regarding accounting for the TCJA’s impact.  SAB 118 requires companies to recognize those tax items for which accounting can be completed. For items whose accounting has not been completed, companies must recognize provisional amounts to the extent they are reasonably estimable, with subsequent adjustments over a measurement period as more information is available and calculations are finalized.

The TCJA lowered the Company’s US statutory federal tax rate from 34% to 21% effective January 1, 2018.

While the Company has recognized the provisional tax effect of the transition tax on deemed repatriation and the revaluation of deferred tax assets and liabilities in its financial statements for the year ended March 31, 2018, the ultimate tax impact could differ from these provisional amounts. The Company will continue to analyze the impact of the TCJA, including any additional regulatory guidance issued by the U.S. tax authorities, and expects to complete its accounting in 2019.

Prior to March 2018, the Company had asserted under ASC 740-30 that all of the unremitted earnings of its foreign subsidiaries were indefinitely invested. The Company evaluates this assertion each period based on a number of factors, including the operating plans, budgets, and forecasts for both the Company and its foreign subsidiaries; the long-term and short-term financial requirements in the U.S. and in each foreign jurisdiction; and the tax consequences of any decision to repatriate earnings of foreign subsidiaries to the U.S.

Because of the transition tax on deemed repatriation required by the TCJA, the Company has been subject to tax in 2018 on the entire amount of its previously undistributed earnings from foreign subsidiaries. Beginning in 2019, the TCJA will generally provide a 100% deduction for U.S. federal tax purposes of dividends received by the Company from its foreign subsidiaries. However, the Company is currently evaluating the potential foreign and U.S. state tax liabilities that would result from future repatriations, if any, and how the TCJA will affect the Company's existing accounting position with regard to the indefinite reinvestment of undistributed foreign earnings. The Company expects to complete this evaluation and determine the impact which the legislation may have on its indefinite reinvestment assertion within the measurement period provided by SAB 118.

The TCJA establishes new tax rules designed to tax U.S. companies on global intangible low-taxed income (GILTI) earned by foreign subsidiaries. Because of the complexity of the new GILTI tax rules, the Company is continuing to evaluate this provision of the TCJA. Therefore, the Company has not made any adjustments related to potential GILTI tax in its June 30, 2018 financial statements.