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Income Taxes
6 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2026
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes

6. Income Taxes

The following table compares our income tax provision and effective tax rates for the three and six months ended September 30, 2026 and 2025:

 

 

Three months ended
September 30,

 

 

Six Months Ended
September 30,

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2026

 

 

2025

 

 

2026

 

 

2025

 

Income tax provision

 

$

3,565

 

 

$

4,001

 

 

$

5,384

 

 

$

3,960

 

Effective tax rate

 

 

21.3

%

 

 

25.5

%

 

 

19.5

%

 

 

19.3

%

For the six months ended September 30, 2026 and 2025, income tax provision and the effective tax rate were primarily driven by the tax effects of share-based compensation and Net Controlled Foreign Corporation Tested Income (NCTI).

For the three months ended September 30, 2026 and 2025, income tax provision and the effective tax rate were primarily driven by the impact of discrete excess tax benefits associated with share-based compensation and NCTI, respectively.

Our India subsidiary operates in a “Special Economic Zone (SEZ)”. One of the benefits associated with the SEZ is that the India subsidiary is not subject to regular India income taxes during its first five years of operations, which included fiscal 2018 through fiscal 2022. The India subsidiary is subject to 50% of regular India income taxes during its second five years of operations, which includes fiscal 2023 through fiscal 2027.

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) is a stimulus bill which was in response to economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The CARES Act provided an employee retention credit, which is a refundable tax credit against certain employment taxes. We filed our employee retention credit claims under the CARES Act during January 2024. In accordance with ASU 2025-10, which we adopted early effective as of April 1, 2025 as permitted, we record any credits for which collection is probable after considering all facts and circumstances including whether any statutes of limitations apply. We consider collection probable once we receive confirmation that the Internal Revenue Service has processed our claim for the credit, and we know the amount of the credit plus any associated interest to be refunded. During the six months ended September 30, 2026, we received in cash $3.0 million of employee retention credits. During the six months ended September 30, 2025, we recorded $6.1 million of employee retention credits including associated interest received or expected to be received in cash as other (gains) charges, net, in the condensed consolidated statements of operations.

We have recorded and maintain valuation allowances offsetting the Company’s deferred tax assets in certain U.S. States and foreign jurisdictions. The ultimate realization of deferred tax assets depends on various factors including the generation of future taxable income in the periods in which the underlying temporary differences are deductible. We maintain valuation allowances for deferred tax assets until we have sufficient evidence to support the reversal of all or some portion of the allowances.

On July 4, 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) was signed into law. The legislation includes several changes to federal tax law that generally allow for more favorable deductibility of certain business expenses beginning in the Company’s fiscal 2026, including the restoration of immediate expensing of domestic research and development expenditures, reinstatement of accelerated fixed asset depreciation and modifications to the international tax framework. OBBBA also amended and extended to calendar year 2030 the statute of limitations for employee retention credits under the CARES Act for certain employment taxes incurred during the three months ended September 30, 2021.