NOTE 12 – INCOME TAXES:

The Company files federal and state income tax returns in several domestic and international jurisdictions.  In most tax jurisdictions, returns are subject to examination by the relevant tax authorities for a number of years after the returns have been filed.  The Company is subject to U.S. federal examination for the tax years 2015 through 2017 and examination in state tax jurisdictions for the tax years 2013 through 2017.  The Company is subject to examination in the People’s Republic of China for tax years 2015 through 2017.

There was no liability for unrecognized tax benefits at either September 30, 2018 or March 31, 2018.

On December 22, 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Tax Act”) was signed into law.  The Tax Act significantly revised the U.S. tax code by, among other changes, lowering the corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21%, requiring a one-time transition tax on accumulated foreign earnings of certain foreign subsidiaries that were previously tax deferred and creating new taxes on certain foreign sourced earnings.  The Company remeasured certain U.S. deferred tax assets and liabilities based on the rates at which they are expected to reverse in the future, which is generally 21%, and recorded an income tax benefit of $971 related to such re-measurement in fiscal 2018.  The Company is still analyzing certain aspects of the Tax Act, which could potentially affect the measurement of the deferred tax asset and liability balances or potentially give rise to new deferred tax amounts.  

The one-time transition tax is based on the total post-1986 earnings and profits (“E&P”) of our foreign subsidiary that has previously been deferred from U.S. income taxes.  The Company recorded its one-time transition liability of its foreign subsidiary resulting in additional income tax expense of $185 in fiscal 2018.  The Company has not yet completed its calculation of the total post-1986 foreign E&P for its foreign subsidiary.  The transition tax is based in part on the amount of those earnings held in cash and other specified assets.  The amount may change upon completion of the fiscal 2018 tax return when the Company finalizes the calculation of post-1986 foreign E&P previously deferred from U.S. federal taxation and finalizes the amounts held in cash or other specified assets.  

The Tax Act also includes two new U.S. tax base-erosion provisions, the global intangible low-taxed income (“GILTI”) provisions and the base-erosion and anti-abuse tax (“BEAT”) provisions, beginning in 2018.  The GILTI provisions require the Company to include in its U.S. income tax return foreign subsidiary earnings in excess of an allowable return on its foreign subsidiary’s tangible assets.  The incremental U.S. tax on GILTI income beginning in 2018 is estimated to be approximately $30.  The Company has elected to account for GILTI tax in the period in which it is incurred.  The BEAT provisions in the Tax Act eliminate the deduction of certain base-erosion payments made to related foreign corporations and impose a minimum tax if greater than regular tax.  The Company does not expect it will be subject to this tax.

The Tax Act also provides tax incentives to U.S. companies to earn income from the sale, lease or license of goods and services abroad in the form of a deduction for foreign-derived intangible income (“FDII”).  FDII is taxed at an effective rate of 13.125% for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017.  The Company’s incremental U.S. tax savings on FDII beginning in fiscal 2019 is estimated to be approximately $200.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 118 to address the application of U.S. GAAP in situations when a registrant does not have the necessary information available, prepared, or analyzed (including computations) in reasonable detail to complete the accounting for certain income tax effects of the Tax Act.  The Company recognized the provisional tax impacts related to the revaluation of deferred tax assets and liabilities and included the amount in its consolidated financial statements for fiscal 2018.  As of March 31, 2018, the Company had completed the majority of its accounting for the tax effects of the Tax Act.  Its preliminary estimate of the deemed repatriated earnings and the re-measurement of its deferred tax assets and liabilities is subject to the finalization of management’s analysis related to certain matters that may require further adjustments and changes in estimates, such as developing interpretations of the provisions of the Tax Act, changes to certain estimates and amounts related to the E&P of its foreign subsidiary, the filing of its tax returns, U.S. Treasury regulations expected to be issued, and administrative interpretations or court decisions interpreting the Tax Act.  During the three-month and six-month periods ended September 30, 2018, there were no changes made to the provisional amounts recorded in fiscal 2018.