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Income Taxes
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Income Taxes [Abstract]  
Income Taxes

NOTE 15.  INCOME TAXES

 

The Company’s foreign operations that are considered to be permanently reinvested have statutory tax rates ranging from 19% - 38%.

 

As of December 31, 2014, the Company’s gross deferred tax asset was $73,465.  The Company has recorded a valuation allowance of $16,081, resulting in a net deferred tax asset of $57,384, before deferred tax liabilities of $21,644.  The Company has provided a valuation allowance against a portion of the net deferred tax assets as of December 31, 2014, because the ultimate realization of those assets does not meet the more likely than not criteria.

 

In assessing the realizability of deferred income tax assets, management considers whether it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized.  The ultimate realization of deferred tax assets is dependent upon the generation of future taxable income during the periods in which those temporary differences become deductible and net operating loss and credit carryforwards expire.  In order to utilize the recorded U.S. deferred tax assets the Company will need to generate approximately $137,000 of future U.S. taxable income, of which approximately $117,000 will need to be generated by 2022 to utilize the net operating losses that management considers realizable.  The estimates and judgments associated with the Company’s valuation allowance on deferred tax assets are considered critical due to the amount of deferred tax assets recorded by the Company on its consolidated balance sheet and the judgment required in determining the Company’s future taxable income.  The Company’s conclusion that the deferred tax assets are more likely than not to be realized reflects, among other things, its ability to generate taxable income to utilize the available net operating loss and credit carryforwards.  The ability of the Company to generate taxable income and meet management’s projections of future taxable income are dependent upon the growth of U.S. based sales, including apparel sales; the maintaining of gross margins and the controlling of other operating expenses in order to increase the U.S. based taxable income; and/or the execution of certain tax planning strategies available to the Company in the future.  While the Company believes that its estimate of future taxable income is reasonable, it is inherently uncertain.  If the Company’s taxable income does not grow as management currently projects over an extended time period, or if the Company realizes unforeseen significant losses in the future, additions to the valuation allowance which reduce the deferred tax assets could be recorded.

 

As of December 31, 2014, the Company had net operating loss, research and experimentation credit and alternative minimum tax credit carryforwards for U.S. federal income tax purposes of $167,303 ($294 relates to excess tax benefits related to share based payment compensation, which will not be recorded until an income tax payable exists), $1,337 and $56, respectively.  The Company believes its U.S. Federal net operating loss (“NOL”) will substantially offset its future U.S. Federal income taxes, excluding the amount subject to U.S. Federal Alternative Minimum Tax (“AMT”).  AMT is calculated as 20% of AMT income.  For purposes of AMT, a maximum of 90% of income is offset by available NOLs.

 

NOLs available to offset taxable income, subject to compliance with Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended (the “Code”) begin to expire based upon the following schedule:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Operating Loss Carryforward Expiration Dates

December 31, 2014

 

 

 

 

Expiration Dates December 31,

 

Net Operating Loss Amount

2021

 

$

32,428 

2022

 

 

115,000 

2023

 

 

5,712 

2024

 

 

3,566 

2025 and beyond

 

 

10,597 

Total

 

 

167,303 

Excess stock based payment tax deductions

 

 

(294)

After limitations

 

$

167,009