Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001518715-25-000026
Chunk: 138

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 8
Chunk 138
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Total(37,472)(40,441)Net deferred tax asset (liability)53,310 18,170 Valuation allowance(53,310)— Total$— $18,170 Management assesses the available positive and negative evidence to estimate if sufficient future taxable income will be generated to fully utilize the existing deferred tax assets. As of December 31, 2024, management determined that sufficient 

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evidence did not exist to support the future utilization of all of the Company's deferred tax assets. As a result the Company recorded a $53.3 million deferred tax assets valuation allowance.During 2024, the Company created federal and state net operating loss carryforwards of $111.9 million and $111.0 million, respectively. The federal net operating loss carryforwards do not expire while the state net operating loss carryforwards generally expire in 2044. The Company’s LIHTC tax credits carryforwards expire in 2043 $0.4 million and 2044 $5.3 million. The Company has state net operating loss carryforwards related to acquisitions in prior years of $4.3 million and $4.4 million as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively, that will expire at various dates from 2025 to 2036. Utilization of net operating loss carryforwards is subject to an annual limitation due to the "change in ownership" provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.Retained earnings at December 31, 2024 and 2023 include approximately $12.7 million in tax basis bad debt reserves for which no income tax liability has been recorded. This represents the balance of bad debt reserves created for tax purposes as of December 31, 1987. These amounts are subject to recapture (i.e., included in taxable income) if certain events occur, such as in the event HomeStreet Bank ceases to be a bank. In the event of recapture, the Company will incur both federal and state tax liabilities on this pre-1988 bad debt reserve balance at the then prevailing corporate tax rates.The Company had no recorded unrecognized tax position as of December 31, 2024 or 2023.We are currently under examination, or subject to examination, by various U.S. federal and state taxing authorities. The Company is no longer subject to federal income tax examinations for tax years prior to 2021 or state income tax examination for tax years