Company: BHE
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-025644
Chunk: 97

Company: BENCHMARK ELECTRONICS INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1B
Chunk 97
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        33,892

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        26,943

       All of the Company's deferred tax assets and liabilities are classified as long-term on the consolidated balance sheets as of December 31, 2024 and 2023. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are offset for each tax jurisdiction and presented as a single net long-term amount on the consolidated balance sheet.During 2024 and 2023, the Company incurred and capitalized certain research and experimentation expenses that are required to be capitalized as an amortizable asset under Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 174 and to be amortized over a period of five years. This requirement is based on the implementation of the U.S. Tax Reform Act of 2017 and became effective on January 1, 2022. As of December 31, 2024, the Company's net deferred tax asset from capitalized research and experimentation expenses was $18.6 million.

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The net change in the Company's valuation allowance for 2024, 2023 and 2022 was a $8.2 million increase, $0.2 million decrease and a less than $0.1 million increase, respectively. In assessing the realizability of deferred 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. Management considers the scheduled reversal of deferred tax liabilities, projected future taxable income and tax planning strategies in making this assessment. As of December 31, 2024, based upon the level of historical taxable income and projections for future taxable income over the periods which the deferred tax assets are deductible, management believes it is more likely than not the Company will realize the benefits of these deductible differences, net of the existing valuation allowances.As of December 31, 2024, the Company has U.S. state operating loss carryforwards of approximately $20.5 million which will expire from 2037 to 2044; foreign operating loss carryforwards of approximately $11.7 million with indefinite carryforward periods; and foreign operating loss carryforwards of approximately $76.9 million which will expire at varying dates through 2034. The utilization of these net operating loss carryforwards is limited to the future operations of the Company in the tax jurisdictions in which such carryforwards arose. The Company has state tax credit carryforwards of $