Company: AEHR
Filing Date: 2025-07-28
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001654954-25-008553
Chunk: 73

Company: AEHR TEST SYSTEMS
Filing Date: 2025-07-28
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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 accrued interest and accrued penalties related to unrecognized tax benefit as of May 30, 2025. The Company does not expect its unrecognized tax benefits to change materially over the next 12 months. The Company policy is to recognize interest and penalties in income tax expense. The Company’s federal and state income tax returns are subject to possible examination by the taxing authorities until the expiration of the related statutes of limitations on those tax returns. In general, the federal income tax returns have a three-year statute of limitations, and the state income tax returns have a four-year statute of limitations. The Company’s foreign income tax returns are also subject to examination by the foreign tax authorities with the longest statute of limitations period of four-year. The Company is not currently under audit with the Internal Revenue Service, or any foreign, state or local jurisdictions, nor has it been notified of any other potential future income tax audit.

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7. LEASES The Company leases its manufacturing and office space under operating leases. The principal administrative and production facility is located in Fremont, California, in a 51,289 square foot building. The Company entered into a non-cancelable operating lease agreement for its United States manufacturing and office facility, which was amended in December 2022 to extend the lease term to September 2030. The total commitments, net of tenant incentives of up to $0.3 million, under the modified lease are $8.6 million. The modified lease contains an option to further extend the lease for five years. The lease modification resulted in an increase in the Company’s operating lease right-of-use assets and operating lease liabilities of $5.9 million each in December 2022. In April 2025, it became reasonably certain that the Company would exercise the five-year lease extension option ending in September 2035 due to the remodeling of the Fremont manufacturing and administrative office. As a result, the lease modification increased the Company’s operating lease right-of-use assets and operating lease liabilities by $4.6 million each. The Company leases a 492 square foot sales and support office in Utting, Germany. The lease, which began on February 1, 1992, contains an automatic twelve months renewal. The Company leases a facility in the Philippines located in a 6,458 square foot building in Clark Freeport Zone, Pampanga. The lease, amended in 2023, began on November 1, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2029 with an option to