Company: FRHC
Filing Date: 2025-02-07
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000924805-25-000002
Chunk: 263

Company: Freedom Holding Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-02-07
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
Chunk 263
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1 million attributable to Freedom Advertising, an advertising company, out of which $1.8 million was paid to advertising contractors for advertisement placement and promotion. There was also an increase of $1.4 million of advertising expenses attributable to FRHC due to its focus on brand visibility and enhanced marketing efforts.

General and administrative expense

73

General and administrative expense for the three months ended December 31, 2024, was $73.4 million, representing an increase of 41.3 million or 129% compared to general and administrative expense of $32.1 million for the three months ended December 31, 2023. The main factors contributing to the increase was in charity and sponsorship. Our charity and sponsorship expense increased by $31.4 million due to several charitable contributions through our subsidiaries during the three months ended December 31, 2024. The most significant contributions were made to the Kazakhstan Chess Federation, Junior Football League of Kazakhstan, Tennis Federation of the Olympic Committee, and organization of a chess tournament in the USA. Taxes, other than income tax, increased by $2.3 million, mainly due to the general growth of the Group, including the addition of new subsidiaries.

Provision for allowance for expected credit losses

We recognized provision for allowance for credit losses in the amount of $30.6 million for the three months ended December 31, 2024, as compared to recovery of provision for allowance for credit losses of $3.5 million for the three months ended December 31, 2023. The increase between the two periods is mostly attributable to increased provisions for uncollateralized bank customer loans and right of claim for purchased retail loans, driven by a change of estimate for forward-looking information as a result of currency depreciation occurred prior reporting date.    

Income tax expense

We had income before income tax of $98.3 million and $111.6 million for the three months ended December 31, 2024, and December 31, 2023, respectively. Income tax expense for the three months ended December 31, 2024, and December 31, 2023 was $20.2 million and $15.5 million, respectively. While there have been a decrease in our income before income tax between the two quarters, the increase in the income tax expense was primarily due to the change in our effective tax rate. Such rate during the three months ended December 31, 2024, increased to 20.5%, from 13.9% during