re: I’ll bet not one if you tax nerds can tell me how much income tax NYT

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I see that tax benefit and tax liability are similar in 2017. Did those offset to give you the zero amount owed?

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Had to jump off my phone before I went blind.

Go to EDGAR and pull up the 2017 10-K. The ticker is NYT. If you go to footnote 12, you'll see their current federal tax benefit is 252k. Now, that's not going to line up with anything on the tax return because frick-you-in-the-ear accounting for income tax rules, but it is indicative especially compared against the surrounding years (i.e. it is much lower).

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We had an income tax receivable of $25.4 million as of December 31, 2017 versus accrued income taxes payable of $1.9 million as of December 25, 2016.

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is what leads me to think their tax bill tax year was lower than normal. The receivable itself could just be because of a large overpayment, but the fact that it's coupled with next to little current fed expense allows me to make an inference. I would caution however, that 2017 is murky because of the impacts of the TCJA.