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Income Taxes
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2026
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes Income Taxes
As of August 1, 2024, we are the sole managing member of System1 Holdings and, as a result, consolidate the financial results of System1 Holdings. System1 Holdings is treated as a partnership for U.S. federal and most applicable state and local income tax purposes. As a partnership, System1 Holdings is not subject to U.S. federal and certain state and local income taxes. Any taxable income or loss generated by System1 Holdings is passed through to and included in the taxable income or loss of its members, including us, on a pro rata basis. We are subject to U.S. federal income taxes, in addition to state and local income taxes with respect to its allocable share of any taxable income or loss of System1 Holdings, as well as any stand-alone income or loss generated by us.

We recorded an income tax benefit of $0.1 million and $0.2 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2026, respectively and $1.5 million and $1.9 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, respectively. The effective tax rate was 0.5% and 0.2% for the three and six months ended June 30, 2026, respectively and 6.7% and 4.5% for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, respectively. The provision for income taxes differs from the amount of income tax computed by applying the U.S. statutory federal tax rate of 21% to the loss before income taxes due to the exclusion of non-controlling loss, state taxes, foreign rate differential, non-deductible expenses, the valuation allowance activity related to unrealizable deferred tax assets and outside basis adjustments. As of June 30, 2026, we had a full valuation allowance on our United States federal and state net deferred tax assets as it was more likely than not that those deferred tax assets would not be realized.
During the three and six months ended June 30, 2026 and 2025, inclusive of interest, no payments were made to the parties to the Tax Receivable Agreement and there were no amounts due, respectively.