Company: YEXT
Filing Date: 2025-09-08
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001614178-25-000119
Chunk: 128

Company: Yext, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-08
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 3
Chunk 128
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 to multiple factors, including but not limited to, changes in the mix of earnings and losses in countries with differing statutory tax rates, changes in non-deductible expenses, expiration or non-utilization of net operating losses, changes in excess tax benefits related to exercises and vesting of stock options and awards compensation, changes in the valuation of deferred tax assets and liabilities and our ability to utilize them, the applicability of withholding taxes, effects from acquisitions, and changes in accounting principles and tax laws in jurisdictions where we operate. While we regularly evaluate new information that may affect our tax liabilities, resulting in recognition, derecognition or change in measurement of a tax position taken, there can be no assurance that the final determination of any examinations will not have an adverse effect on our business, operating results or financial condition.

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In fiscal year 2023, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 eliminated the option to deduct research and development expenditures annually and required taxpayers to amortize such costs over a period of five or fifteen years. On July 4, 2025, The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, or the OBBBA, was enacted in the United States and made a number of changes to the U.S. federal income tax law. Among other things, the OBBBA restored deductions for U.S. research and development expenditures (while continuing to require taxpayers to capitalize and amortize foreign research and development expenditures), changed the calculation and deductibility of global intangible low-taxed income (renamed Net CFC Tested Income) and foreign derived intangibles income (renamed Foreign-Derived Deduction Eligible Income) for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2025, and changed the calculation of deductible business interest expense to include depreciation and amortization. We are continuing to analyze the potential impact of the OBBBA on our operations, business and financial performance; however, these provisions may cause our cash taxes and effective tax rate to fluctuate.

In addition, global tax developments applicable to multinational businesses continue to evolve and create uncertainty for us. For example, in 2022 the United States enacted an alternative minimum tax for companies with modified GAAP net income in excess of $1 billion. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (the “OECD”) also has proposals regarding the implementation of global minimum tax of at least 15% for multinationals with global revenue exceeding certain thresholds, known as “Pillar Two.” Although these rules are not currently applicable to us, we operate in participating countries that