The Company is obligated to reimburse the Manager promptly for all Operational Expenses (defined below) advanced by the Manager. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Manager is not entitled to reimbursement for Operational Expenses paid by the Manager if such Operational Expenses are or would have been, but for the provisions of the Management Agreement denying reimbursement, accrued by the Company under generally accepted accounting principles on or before March 31, 2020. “Operational Expenses” are all costs and expenses related to the Company’s operations, but excluding the Organizational Expenses, costs to develop Database IP and the Manager’s overhead and compensation related expenses, including compensation and expenses of the officers, directors, employees, auditors, attorneys and other agents of the Manager and fees and expenses for administrative, bookkeeping, clerical and related support services, office space and facilities, utilities, telephone and email of the Manager, all of which are the responsibility of the Manager.
For the year ended December 31, 2019 and quarter ended March 31, 2020, expenses covered by our Manager on our behalf were $200,833 and $95,665 respectively.
11. Income Taxes
The Company accounts for income taxes under the asset and liability method. Deferred income taxes reflect the temporary differences between assets and liabilities recognized for financial reporting purposes and amounts recognized for income tax reporting purposes, net operating loss carryforwards, and other tax credits measure by applying currently enacted tax laws. Valuation allowances are provided when necessary to reduce deferred tax assets to an amount that is more likely than not to be realized.
The Company has evaluated the available evidence supporting the realization of its gross deferred tax assets including the amount and timing of future taxable income and has determined that it is more likely than not that the $73,000 and $32,000 deferred tax assets will not be fully realized and has established a valuation allowance against those assets as of December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019 respectively.
At December 31, 2020, the Company has federal and state (California) net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $164,000 and $163,000, respectively, which are available to offset future taxable income. The federal carryforwards are carried forward indefinitely and the state carryforwards will begin to expire by December 31, 2039. In addition, net operating loss carryforwards may be limited in the event of changes in ownership as defined by Internal Revenue Code Section 382.
The Financial Accounting Standards Board provides guidance regarding how uncertain tax positions that have been taken or are expected to be taken on a company’s tax return should be recognized, measured, presented, and disclosed in the consolidated financial statements. The Company believes that it has not taken any significant uncertain tax positions. Generally, the tax returns and amount of taxable income of the Company are subject to examination by federal and state taxing authorities during the three and four-year period, respectively, prior to the period covered by the consolidated financial statements.
12. Master Agreement with Genetic Alliance
In January 2019, the Manager entered into a Master Agreement (the “GA Agreement”), with Genetic Alliance (“GA”), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, in order to provide an upgrade path for GA participants to manage their health data contained in GA’s Platform for Engaging Everyone Responsibly (“PEER”). PEER participants are invited to join the LunaDNA platform and be eligible to receive shares when contributing their Member Data to the Database, subject to local regulations or laws, such as those governing securities, data rights, or data privacy.
The initial term of the GA Agreement ends in June 2025. Thereafter, the agreement will be automatically renewed annually unless previously terminated for convenience or terminated for breach.
The communities started transitioning from PEER in the second quarter of 2020 and continued to transition their participants and recruit new participants to the LunaDNA platform. Any data previously shared by a participant in PEER remains bound to the permissions the participant defined in PEER and has not been/will not be transitioned to the Member accounts in the Database.
Certain expenses of hosting the PEER data became the responsibility of the Company after March 31, 2020 under the Management Agreement. These expenses were $18,165 for the nine months ended December 31, 2020. Subsequent to year end, PEER has been obsolesced and the Company is no longer accruing hosting expenses for it.
13. Agreement with pharmaceutical company
In December 2019, the Manager signed a master services agreement and statement of work with a pharmaceutical company to create a virtual patient community around a specific disease indication to establish a better understanding of the disease through longitudinal collection and analysis of self-reported, longitudinal health information DNA and electronic health record data. The formation of this community has the broader goal of inviting community members to enroll in a clinical trial. The agreement has an initial term of five years unless earlier terminated.
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