Company: PSA-PH
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001393311-25-000036
Chunk: 120

Company: Public Storage
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 15
Chunk 120
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 (Note 4) and our notes payable denominated in Euros (Note 7), our operating results and financial position are affected by fluctuations in currency exchange rates between the Euro, against the U.S. Dollar. The Euro was translated at exchange rates of approximately 1.039 U.S. Dollars per Euro at December 31, 2024 (1.104 at December 31, 2023), and average exchange rates of 1.082, 1.081 and 1.054 for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022, respectively. Income TaxesWe and a subsidiary of PSOC have elected to be treated as a REIT, as defined in the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). For each taxable year in which we qualify for taxation as a REIT, we will not be subject to U.S. federal corporate income tax on our “REIT taxable income” (generally, taxable income subject to specified adjustments, including a deduction for dividends paid and excluding our net capital gain) that is distributed to our shareholders. We believe we have met these REIT requirements for all periods presented herein. Accordingly, we have recorded no U.S. federal corporate income tax expense related to our REIT taxable income. We have elected taxable REIT subsidiary (“TRS”) status for some of our consolidated subsidiaries. Our tenant reinsurance, merchandise, third party management operations and our equity investment in Shurgard are conducted under these TRSs and are subject to federal corporate income tax. For these entities, deferred tax assets and liabilities for temporary differences are recognized based on the future tax consequences attributable to differences that exist between the financial statement carrying amounts of assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases, as well as tax attributes such as operating loss, capital loss and tax credits carryforwards on a taxing jurisdiction basis. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the year in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in income in the period that includes the enactment date. Valuation allowances are established when necessary to reduce deferred tax assets to the amounts that are expected more likely than not to be realized in the future.  We recognize tax benefits of uncertain income tax positions only if we believe it is more likely than not that the position would ultimately be sustained assuming the relevant taxing authorities had full knowledge of the relevant