As of June 30, 2017, the Company had federal and state net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $7,258,933 of which approximately $1,160,000 may be utilized to offset future taxable income. Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code imposes substantial restrictions on the utilization of net operating loss and tax credit carryforwards when a change in ownership occurs. No deferred tax debits have been recorded because it is considered unlikely that they will be realized. The loss carryforwards will expire during the fiscal years ended June 30 as follows:

The overall effective tax rate differs from the federal statutory tax rate of 35% due to operating losses and other deferred assets not providing benefit for income tax purposes.

A reconciliation of income tax expense at the federal statutory rate to income tax expense at the Company’s effective rate is as follows at June 30, 2016 and 2017:

The components of income tax expense (benefit) from continuing operations for the years ended June 30, 2017 and 2016 consisted of the following:

Deferred income tax expense/(benefit) results primarily from the reversal of temporary timing differences between tax and financial statement income.