Commitments and Contingencies | Note 12. Commitments and Contingencies Liens As of March 31, 2024, the Company had placed twenty-one liens on the Company’s Diamondhead, Mississippi Property (“the Property”). No additional liens have been filed as of the filing of this report. The liens were as follows: In September of 2014, a first lien was placed on the Property pursuant to a Private Placement dated February 14, 2014, as amended, to secure certain obligations of the Company. The first lien is composed of an (i) Executives Lien and (ii) an Investors’ Lien. The liens are in pari passu On March 31, 2014, the Company issued $ 1 850,000 1,850,000 pari passu 2,000,000 On December 16, 2016, the Company filed a second lien on the Property in the maximum amount of $ 250,000 137,500 On August 21, 2018, the Company filed a third lien on the Property in the maximum amount of $ 400,000 On January 26, 2021, the Company filed a fourth lien on the Property in the amount of $ 2,000,000 2,000,000 On February 17, 2021, the Company filed a fifth lien in the amount of $ 658,750 658,750 In April 2021, the Company filed six liens on the Property to secure six non-interest-bearing notes payable to be issued to six lenders bringing total liens on the Property to eleven. The six notes issued total $ 252,500 250,000 In June 2021, the Company filed a twelfth and thirteenth liens on the Property to secure two non-interest bearing notes issued in May of 2021 which total $ 50,000 100,000 In July 2021, the Company filed a fourteenth lien on the Property to secure a promissory note in the amount of $ 150,000 In July 2021, the Company filed a fifteenth lien on the Property to secure a promissory note in the amount of $ 100,000 In July 2021, the Company filed a sixteenth lien on the Property to secure a non-interest bearing note issued to the Chairman of the Board in May 2021 which totals $ 50,000 100,000 In July 2021, the Company filed a seventeenth lien on the Property to secure a non-interest bearing note issued to a lender, which totals $ 25,000 50,000 In November 2021, the Company filed an eighteenth lien on the Property to secure a non-interest bearing note issued in November 2021 which totals $ 50,000 100,000 In March 2022, the Company filed a nineteenth and twentieth lien on the Property to secure two non-interest bearing notes issued in March of 2022 which total $ 80,000 160,000 In May 2022, the Company filed a twenty-first lien on the Property to secure a non-interest bearing note issued in April of 2022 which totals $ 50,000 100,000 Other The Company is currently delinquent in filing those documents and forms required to be filed in connection with its Employee Stock Ownership Plan (“ESOP”) for the year ended December 31, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 and 2015. The Company did not have the funds to pay professionals to prepare, audit and file these documents and forms when due. Although these required filings normally do not result in any tax due to an agency of the government, the Company could be subject to significant penalties for failure to file these forms when due. Penalties are assessed by the Department of Labor on a per diem basis from the original due dates for the required informational filings until the filings are actually made. The Company has accrued $ 614,975 578,775 The Company and its subsidiaries file their federal tax return on a consolidated basis. The Company has not filed its federal tax returns for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2016. The Company has retained an accountant to prepare its federal tax returns. The Company believes no tax will be due with these federal returns. The Company has not filed its annual reports together with its franchise tax due with the state of Delaware for 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018. Mississippi Gaming Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, has not filed its annual reports, together with its franchise tax due, with the state of Delaware for 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018. Casino World, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, has not filed its annual reports, together with its franchise tax due, with the state of Delaware for 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2016. Mississippi Gaming Corporation has not filed its corporate income and franchise tax returns, together with the tax due, with the state of Mississippi for 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, or 2018. Casino World, Inc. has not filed its corporate income and franchise tax returns, together with the tax due, with the state of Mississippi for 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2016. As of March 31, 2024, the accrued franchise taxes for Delaware and Mississippi totaled $ 16,660 Management Agreement On June 19, 1993, two subsidiaries of the Company, Casino World Inc. and Mississippi Gaming Corporation, entered into a Management Agreement with Casinos Austria Maritime Corporation (CAMC). Subject to certain conditions, under the Management Agreement, CAMC would operate, on an exclusive basis, all of the Company’s proposed dockside gaming casinos in the State of Mississippi, including any operation fifty percent (50%) or more of which is owned by the Company or its affiliates. Unless terminated earlier pursuant to the provisions of the Agreement, the Agreement terminates five years from the first day of actual Mississippi gaming operations and provides for the payment of an annual operational term management fee of 1.2% of all gross gaming revenues between zero and $100,000,000; plus 0.75% of gross gaming revenue between $100,000,000 and $140,000,000; plus 0.5% of gross gaming revenue above $140,000,000; plus two percent of the net gaming revenue between zero and $25,000,000; plus three percent of the net gaming revenue above twenty-five million dollars $25,000,000. The Company believes this Agreement is no longer in effect. However, there can be no assurance that CAMC will not attempt to maintain otherwise which would lead to litigation |