CF BANKSHARES INC. Income Taxes Disclosure

NOTE 13 – INCOME TAXES

The Company adopted ASU 2023-09 on a prospective basis during the year ended December 31, 2025, which expanded income tax disclosures.

(1) State taxes in Indiana made up the majority (greater than 50%) of the tax effect in this category.

(2) Including tax impact of tax basis reduction.

At December 31, 2025, the Company had a deferred tax asset recorded of $4,251. At December 31, 2024, the Company had a deferred tax asset recorded of $4,177. These balances are included in the accrued interest receivable and other assets on the

Consolidated Balance Sheets. At December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the Company had no unrecognized tax benefits recorded. The Company is subject to U.S. federal income tax and is no longer subject to federal examination for years prior to 2022.

Our deferred tax assets are composed of U.S. net operating losses (“NOLs”), and other temporary book to tax differences. When determining the amount of deferred tax assets that are more-likely-than-not to be realized, and therefore recorded as a benefit, the Company conducts a regular assessment of all available information. This information includes, but is not limited to, taxable income in prior periods, projected future income and projected future reversals of deferred tax items. Based on these criteria, the Company determined as of December 31, 2025 that no valuation allowance was required against the net deferred tax asset.

In 2012, a recapitalization program through the sale of $22,500 in common stock improved the capital levels of CFBank and provided working capital for the Holding Company. The result of the change in stock ownership associated with the stock offering, however, was that the Company incurred an ownership change within the guidelines of Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. At year-end 2024, the Company had net operating loss carryforwards of $21,283, which expire at various dates from 2025 to 2032. As a result of the ownership change, the Company's ability to utilize carryforwards that arose before the 2012 stock offering closed is limited to $163 per year. Due to this limitation, management determined it was more likely than not that $20,520 of net operating loss carryforwards would expire unutilized. As required by accounting standards, the Company reduced the carrying value of deferred tax assets, and the corresponding valuation allowance, by the $6,977 tax effect of this lost realizability.

Federal income tax laws provided additional deductions, totaling $2,250, for thrift bad debt reserves established before 1988. Accounting standards do not require a deferred tax liability to be recorded on this amount, which otherwise would have totaled $473 at year-end 2025. However, if CFBank were wholly or partially liquidated or otherwise ceases to be a bank, or if tax laws were to change, this amount would have to be recaptured and a tax liability recorded. Additionally, any distributions in excess of CFBank’s current and accumulated earnings and profits would reduce amounts allocated to its bad debt reserve and create a tax liability for CFBank.