Income Taxes |
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| Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract] | |
| Income Taxes |
Income Taxes
We file a consolidated federal income tax return for all of our wholly-owned subsidiaries, including Sirius XM. Income tax expense for the three months ended March 31, 2016 and 2015 was $109,343 and $138,929, respectively. We estimate our annual effective tax rate for the year ending December 31, 2016 will be 37.9%. Our effective tax rate for the three months ended March 31, 2016 was 39.0%. Our effective tax rate for the three months ended March 31, 2015 was 56.8% primarily due to the effect of a tax law change in the District of Columbia which will reduce our future taxes. As a result of this 2015 tax law change, we will use less of certain net operating losses in the future which resulted in a $44,392 increase in our valuation allowance.
As of March 31, 2016 and December 31, 2015, we had a valuation allowance related to deferred tax assets of $47,773 and $49,095, respectively, that were not likely to be realized due to certain net operating loss limitations and acquired net operating losses that we were not more likely than not going to utilize.
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- Definition The entire disclosure for income taxes. Disclosures may include net deferred tax liability or asset recognized in an enterprise's statement of financial position, net change during the year in the total valuation allowance, approximate tax effect of each type of temporary difference and carryforward that gives rise to a significant portion of deferred tax liabilities and deferred tax assets, utilization of a tax carryback, and tax uncertainties information. Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
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