Company: TVRD
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001104659-25-006050
Chunk: 741

Company: Tvardi Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 741
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 months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023.

16. Income Taxes The Company has recognized a full tax valuation allowance against its deferred tax assets as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023. The tax benefit related to the exercise of stock options is recognized as a deferred tax asset that is offset by a corresponding valuation allowance. As such, the Company’s effective tax rate is zero for each of the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023. Historically, the Company’s benefit from income taxes related to state R&D tax credits exchanged for cash pursuant to the Connecticut R&D Tax Credit Exchange Program, which permits qualified small businesses engaged in R&D activities within Connecticut to exchange their unused R&D tax credits for a cash amount equal to 65% of the value of the exchanged credits. The Company has not exchanged its R&D tax credit for cash during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, and it was not eligible to exchange its R&D tax credit for cash during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023. Therefore, there was no benefit from income taxes for either of the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023. The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 included tax legislation that became effective early in 2023. Significant legislation for corporate taxpayers includes a corporate alternative minimum tax of 15.0% for companies with $1,000,000 or more in average net financial statement profits over the three previous years, as well as a 1.0% indirect excise tax on the repurchase of shares by a publicly traded company. The Company does not expect this legislation to have an effect on its tax provision as of September 30, 2024; however, the Company will continue to evaluate the effect on the tax provision each reporting period. 17. Commitments and Contingencies License Agreement with Enteris Biopharma, Inc. In August 2019, the Company entered into a non-exclusive license agreement, or the Enteris License Agreement, with Enteris Biopharma, Inc., or Enteris, pursuant to which Enteris granted to the Company a non-exclusive, royalty-bearing license, including the right to grant sublicenses, under certain proprietary technology and patent rights related to or covering formulations for oral delivery of peptide active pharmaceutical ingredients with functional excipients to enhance permeability and/or solubility, known as Enteris’s Pe