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Reporting Period: Mar 30, 2019
The Company had income tax expense of $1.3 million and $5.3 million in the first quarters of 2019 and 2018, respectively. The Company’s effective tax rates from continuing operations were 4.1% and 19.3% for the first quarters of 2019 and 2018, respectively. The Company received a tax benefit in both periods from stock price appreciation on stock-based awards that settled in the quarters, resulting in a lower than statutory tax rate.
We have operating leases for office space and equipment. We determine if an arrangement is a lease at inception. Certain office space leases provide for rent adjustments relating to changes in real estate taxes and other operating costs. Our operating leases generally include options to extend the term of the leases which are not recognized as part of the right-of-use asset until we are reasonably certain that the option will be exercised. We may terminate our leases with sufficient notice to the lessor and in some cases, upon the payment of a termination fee. Our leases do not include substantial variable payments based on index or rate. After the adoption of ASU 2016-02 in 2019, for all leases, a right-of-use asset and a lease liability, initially measured at the present value of the lease payments, are recognized in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet as of March 31, 2019 as described below.
We have a finance lease in connection with the land at our College Point, N.Y. printing facility. Interest on the lease liability has been recorded in Interest expense and other, net in our Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations. Repayments of the principal portion of our lease liability are recorded in financing activities and payments of interest on our lease liability are recorded in operating activities in the statement of cash flows for our finance lease.
As of March 31, 2019, the asset related to the finance lease of $5.0 million is included in Property, plant and equipment in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet. As of March 31, 2019, the undiscounted cash flow related to the finance lease was $7.1 million offset by interest of $0.3 million, resulting in $6.8 million included in Short-term debt and finance lease obligations in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet.
Our leases to third parties predominantly relate to office space in the Company Headquarters. We determine if an arrangement is a lease at inception. Office space leases are operating leases and generally include options to extend the term of the lease. Our leases do not include variable payments based on index or rate. We do not separate the lease and non-lease components in a contract. The non-lease components predominantly include charges for utilities usage and other operating expenses estimated based on the proportionate share of the rental space of each lease.