Income Taxes (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Income Taxes [Abstract]

Schedule of Components of Income Tax Expense (Benefit) [Table Text Block]

The reported tax benefit varies from the amount that would be provided by applying the statutory U.S. Federal income tax rate to the income (loss) from continuing operations before taxes for the following reasons:

	2012			2011
Expected federal statutory tax expenses (benefit)	$	(944	)	$	1,485
Increase (reduction) in taxes resulting from:
State income taxes recoverable		(5	)		175
Non-deductible expenses (permanent differences)		36			36
Change in valuation allowance attributable to continuing operations		—			(27,789	)
Capital loss expiry		—			125
Adjustment to effective tax rate		(12	)		—
Other		(53	)		(349	)
Income tax recovery	$	(978	)	$	(26,317	)

Schedule of Deferred Tax Assets and Liabilities [Table Text Block]

The components of the deferred tax asset and liability as of December 31 (after derecognizing uncertain tax positions) are as follows:

	2012			2011
Net operating loss carry-forwards	$	28,736		$	28,293
Capital loss carry forwards		—			2
Intangibles		(7	)		62
Stock based compensation		469			242
Start-up costs		32			35
Depreciation and amortization		15			(1	)
Other		398			150
Heritage Global Partners – Trade Name		(459	)		—
Heritage Global Partners – Customer List/Business Network		(1,606	)		—
Net deferred tax assets	$	27,578			28,783