Company: LIFD
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001096906-25-000346
Chunk: 1686

Company: LFTD PARTNERS INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 4
Chunk 1686
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 $2,138,175, which, for the year ended December 31, 2023, was $1,666,155 on an after-tax basis. At the closing of the acquisition of Lifted in February 2020, 645,000 shares of unregistered common stock of the Company were designated as contingent deferred compensation (the “Deferred Contingent Stock”) to certain persons specified by NWarrender in a schedule delivered by him to the Company (the “Deferred Contingent Stock Recipients”), as an employee retention incentive. Now that certain conditions and requirements have been met, the Deferred Contingent Stock vested on February 24, 2023, and on this date, in accordance with US GAAP, the Company expensed the value of the vested Deferred Contingent Stock. This one-time, non-cash charge reduced net income for the year ended December 31, 2023 from $3,825,162 to $2,159,007. But for this charge, our Company would have reported a basic and fully diluted EPS of $0.26 and $0.23, respectively, for the year ended December 31, 2023. As of December 31, 2024, 503,000 shares of Deferred Contingent Stock have been issued to the Deferred Contingent Stock Recipients and there were 142,000 shares of Deferred Contingent Stock that are issuable at the direction of the Deferred Contingent Stock Recipients. No stock compensation expense was recognized during the year ended December 31, 2022. 

Payroll Expenses

During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company reported payroll expenses of $5,840,846. Payroll expenses include sales commissions paid to independent contractors. Lifted’s former Chief Strategy Officer (the “CSO”), who worked for Lifted from July 1, 2021 through April 30, 2024, had been hired to develop and implement certain important strategies to assist Lifted’s efforts to increase its production, fulfillment and sales capabilities. The CSO’s two-year agreement with Lifted entitled the CSO to be paid an annual salary of $180,000 plus a bonus equal to 5% of total net sales for Lifted in excess of $6,000,000 per quarter. The CSO’s final bonus, for April 2024, was $27,941, and was paid in May 2024. For the year ended December