Company: EPR-PE
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001045450-25-000051
Chunk: 136

Company: EPR PROPERTIES
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 8
Chunk 136
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 provision for current U.S. federal income taxes was recorded for any of those years. If the Company fails to qualify as a REIT in any taxable year, without the benefit of certain provisions, it will be subject to federal and state income taxes at regular corporate rates (including any applicable alternative minimum tax for years prior to January 1, 2021) and may not be able to qualify as a REIT for four subsequent taxable years. Even if the Company qualifies for taxation as a REIT, the Company is subject to certain state and local taxes on its income and property, and federal income and excise taxes on its undistributed taxable income. Tax years 2021 through 2023 remain generally open to examination for U.S. federal income tax and state tax purposes and from 2019 through 2023 for Canadian income tax purposes.The Company’s policy is to recognize interest and penalties as general and administrative expense. The Company did not recognize any interest and penalties in 2024, 2023 or 2022. The Company did not have any accrued interest and penalties at December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022. Additionally, the Company did not have any unrecorded tax benefits as of December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022.During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company made a $5.9 million payment to the City of Kansas City, Missouri under protest related to an assessment of tax years ending December 31, 2018 through 2022. The City has denied the Company’s necessary deduction for dividends paid for each of these years resulting in assessment of additional tax, penalties and interest. The Company filed a lawsuit and demanded a refund of the $5.9 million payment during the year ended December 31, 2024 on grounds that the dividend is deductible and/or that the standard apportionment unfairly represents EPR’s economic presence in the City. Subsequent to the filing of the lawsuit, the City granted EPR a variance to the standard apportionment on a prospective basis. If applied retrospectively, the apportionment variance alone would reduce the purported deficiency by 98%. Although there can be no assurances, based on an agreement reached with the City regarding the treatment of future taxes and the Company's position in the lawsuit, the Company believes that it is more likely than not that the payment will be refunded.Concentrations of RiskTopgolf USA (Topgolf