PPP, the Company used proceeds from the PPP Loan primarily for payroll costs, rent and utilities. The PPP Loan carried a 1.00% interest rate per annum, matured on April 24, 2022, and was subject to the terms and conditions applicable to loans administered by the SBA under the PPP.
On February 3, 2021, the Company submitted the application for PPP loan forgiveness, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the SBA’s Loan Forgiveness Application (revised June 24, 2020). On March 1, 2021, the Company received confirmation from the SBA that the PPP Loan was forgiven in full including all interest incurred, which resulted in a gain on debt extinguishment of $1.0 million, during the three months ended March 31, 2021.
On December 27, 2020, the Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2020 expanded certain benefits made available under the enhanced CARES Act, including modifying and extending the employee retention credit. As modified, the employee retention credit provides eligible employers with fewer than 500 employees a refundable tax credit against the employer’s share of social security taxes. The employee retention credit is equal to 70% of qualified wages paid to employees during calendar year 2021 for a maximum credit of $7,000 per employee for each calendar quarter through September 30, 2021. The Company recognized a $0.3 million employee retention credit during the three months ended March 31, 2021, which was offset against payroll tax expense.
Credit Agreement
On January 19, 2021, the Company and the lender thereunder (the “Lender”) entered into an amendment to the credit agreement, originally entered into on March 25, 2020, that increased the amount available under delayed draw term loans by $1.0 million, and issued an additional 1,000,000 Series G Warrants. The Company evaluated the accounting related to the amendment and in conjunction with the warrants issued. Based on this analysis the Company determined the agreements are substantially different and extinguished the original credit agreement and recorded the amended credit agreement as a new debt at a fair value of $10.0 million. As a result, during the three months ended March 31, 2021, the Company recorded a debt discount of approximately $0.5 million and a $3.0 million loss on extinguishment of debt, which is comprised of the fair value of the warrants and unamortized debt issuance cost with the original credit agreement, offset by the debt discount. At March 31, 2021, there was approximately $0.1 million of unamortized debt discount. Pursuant to the amendment of the credit agreement, the maturity date of the loans are March 31, 2021 and the loans bear interest at LIBOR plus 2.5%.
On March 10, 2021, the Company and the Lender entered into an amendment to the credit agreement that extended the maturity date from March 31, 2021 to March 31, 2022. The Company has accounted for this amendment as a debt modification. The associated unamortized debt discount on the January 19, 2021 amendment of $0.1 million was amortized as interest expense over the term of the amended credit agreement.
On June 28, 2021, the Company entered into a warrant exercise agreement with existing investors, including the Lender, to exercise certain outstanding warrants. For further details on this transaction see Note 9. The Company used some of the proceeds from this transaction to pay off the $10.5 million of debt outstanding under the credit agreement.
(6) Leases
The Company has a noncancelable operating lease for office and warehouse space in San Clemente, which was extended by twelve months with an end date of June 30, 2023. The Company also had an operating lease and warehouse space in Carlsbad, California, which expired June 30, 2022. The Company does not have any short-term leases or financing lease arrangements. Lease and non-lease components are accounted for separately.
Operating lease costs were $0.1 million and $0.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively, and $0.6 million and $0.5 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively. Variable lease costs were not material.