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10-Q
Nov 5, 1:56 PM ET
Essential Utilities, Inc. 10-Q
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The Company’s effective tax rate was an expense of 4.5% and a benefit of 2.5% for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025, respectively. The Company’s effective tax rate was an expense of 18.6% and 1.7% for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, respectively. The decrease in income tax expense in the third quarter of 2025 is primarily attributed to the net increase in tax benefit associated with the tax deduction for continued qualifying infrastructure investment, offset by decreases in both the state tax benefit and amortization of tax repairs surcredit in the Regulated Natural Gas segment based on a rate order received in September 2024. The increase in the income tax benefit for the first nine months of 2025 is primarily attributed to the release of $22,575 of income tax reserve regulatory liability in the Regulated Water segment based on the rate order received by Aqua Pennsylvania in February 2025, offset by the decreases in both the state tax benefit and amortization of tax repairs surcredit in the Regulated Natural Gas segment based on a rate order received in September 2024.
In determining its interim tax provision, the Company reflects its estimated impact from its permanent and flow-through tax differences. The Company uses the flow-through method to account for the repairs tax deduction for qualifying utility infrastructure at its regulated Pennsylvania and New Jersey subsidiaries.