Income Taxes |
3 Months Ended |
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Mar. 31, 2026 | |
| Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract] | |
| Income Taxes | 10. Income Taxes
eXoZymes Inc. is a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes, incorporated in the State of Nevada. The Company wholly owns eXoZymes (CA) Inc., a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes incorporated in the State of California, and NCTx LLC, a limited liability company organized in the State of Delaware.
The Company recognized income-tax expense of $ for both the three months ended March 31, 2026, and 2025, respectively. The effective tax rates for the three months ended March 31, 2026, and 2025, were 0% and 0%, respectively. The Company’s federal and state statutory tax rate net of the federal tax benefit was approximately 28% and, and the difference between the Company’s effective tax rate and the statutory tax rate was primarily due to the full valuation allowance recorded against the Company’s U.S. deferred-tax assets.
During the third quarter of 2025, the Company recognized a discrete income-tax benefit of $105,826 related to amended U.S. federal income-tax returns for the 2022 and 2023 tax years filed under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“OBBBA”), enacted July 4, 2025. The OBBBA retroactively permitted the immediate expensing of domestic research and experimental expenditures under I.R.C. § 174. Accordingly, the Company filed amended federal returns for 2022 and 2023 to claim refunds totaling $105,826. The amendments eliminated previously capitalized § 174 amounts and increased federal net-operating-loss carryforwards. The refund receivable was recorded as a discrete current-tax benefit in the third quarter of 2025 and did not materially affect the Company’s deferred-tax assets or valuation-allowance position.
In assessing the realizability of deferred tax assets, management considers whether it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. The ultimate realization of deferred tax assets is dependent upon the generation of future taxable income during the periods in which temporary differences become deductible. Management considers the scheduled reversal of deferred tax liabilities, projected future taxable income, and tax planning strategies in making this assessment. At the end of 2024, the Company’s corporate earnings were in a cumulative loss position. Based on the cumulative losses and projections of future taxable income for the periods in which the deferred tax assets are deductible, the Company recorded a valuation allowance against all its net deferred tax assets as of the three months ended March 31, 2026, and December 31, 2025. The Company intends to maintain a full valuation allowance on its net deferred tax assets until there is sufficient evidence to support the reversal of all or some portion of these allowances. The amount of deferred tax assets considered realizable could materially increase in the future, and the amount of valuation allowance recorded could materially decrease if estimates of future taxable income are increased.
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