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Income Taxes
9 Months Ended
Oct. 31, 2015
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
INCOME TAXES
INCOME TAXES

The Company's quarterly tax provision and quarterly estimate of the annual effective tax rate are subject to significant variation due to several factors. These include variability in the pre-tax jurisdictional mix of earnings, changes in how the Company does business such as entering into new businesses or geographies, changes in foreign currency exchange rates, changes in laws, regulations, and administrative practices, relative changes in expenses or losses for which tax benefits are not recognized, and the impact of discrete items. The impact of these items on the effective tax rate will be greater at lower levels of pre-tax income (loss).

The effective tax rates for the thirteen and thirty-nine weeks ended October 31, 2015 reflect benefits related to a change in the estimated annual effective tax rate and discrete benefits of $9.7 million and $8.6 million, respectively. The discrete benefits include the release of $5.9 million of valuation allowance established on certain net operating losses, as the Company believes it is more likely than not these deferred tax assets will be utilized due to the expectation of future taxable income in the related jurisdiction.

A provision for U.S. income tax has not been recorded on undistributed profits generated through the third quarter of Fiscal 2015 of non-U.S. subsidiaries that the Company has determined to be indefinitely reinvested outside the U.S. Determination of the amount of unrecognized deferred U.S. income tax liability on these unremitted earnings is not practicable because of the complexities associated with this hypothetical calculation. Unremitted earnings from foreign subsidiaries generated after October 31, 2015 are not considered to be invested indefinitely, and the Company plans to recognize deferred U.S. income taxes on these earnings.