Note 5 - Income Taxes

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Notes to Financial Statements

Income Tax Disclosure [Text Block]

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INCOME TAXES

Our estimated annual effective tax rate, adjusted for discrete tax items, is applied to interim periods’ pretax income (loss). During 2015, we determined to repatriate all future foreign earnings and $200.0 million of prior earnings of certain of our non-U.S. subsidiaries, thereby reducing our total permanently reinvested earnings. The change in our foreign repatriation strategy resulted in a non-cash tax charge in 2015 of approximately $70.0 million. We have not provided for U.S. deferred taxes on the remaining permanently reinvested earnings of approximately $850.0 million at March 31, 2016. If those earnings were repatriated, the incremental U.S. tax would be approximately 35% based on current tax law. In addition, as of March 31, 2016, we had approximately $13.8 million of cash held by our foreign subsidiaries which would be subject to U.S. tax upon repatriation.