Company: NGVC
Filing Date: 2025-12-11
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001437749-25-037556
Chunk: 159

Company: Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-11
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1B
Chunk 159
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 with its initial public offering on July 25, 2012. Restricted stock units are granted at the market price of the Company’s common stock on the date of grant and expensed over the applicable vesting period.

The excess tax benefits for recognized compensation costs are reported as a credit to income tax expense and as operating cash flows when such excess tax benefits are realized by a reduction to current taxes payable.

Income Taxes

The Company accounts for income taxes using the asset and liability method. This method requires recognition of deferred tax assets and liabilities for expected future tax consequences of temporary differences that currently exist between the tax basis and financial reporting basis of the Company’s assets and liabilities. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates in the respective jurisdictions in which the Company operates.

The Company considers the need to establish valuation allowances to reduce deferred income tax assets to the amounts the Company believes are more likely than not to be recovered.

The Company recognizes the effect of income tax positions only if those positions are more likely than not of being sustained. Recognized income tax positions are measured at the largest amount that is greater than 50% likely of being realized. Changes in recognition or measurement are reflected in the period in which the change in judgment occurs. Although the Company believes that its estimates are reasonable, actual results could differ from these estimates. In addition, the Company is subject to periodic audits and examinations by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and other state and local taxing authorities.

Any interest or penalties incurred related to income taxes are expensed as incurred and treated as permanent differences for tax purposes.

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On July 4, 2025, the U.S. federal government enacted tax legislation commonly referred to as OBBBA. The OBBBA, among other things, makes permanent 100% bonus depreciation for certain capital expenditures and immediate deduction for domestic research or experimental expenditures (R&D deduction). This legislation was effective for the Company’s consolidated financial statements for the year ended September 30, 2025, except for the R&D deduction which will be effective for the Company’s fiscal year 2026. The Company reflected the impact of the OBBBA in its deferred tax liabilities for the year ended September 30, 2025. The enactment of the OBBBA did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements for the year ended September 30, 2025. The Company is currently assessing the impact of the OBBBA on future periods.

Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements

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