Income Taxes (Notes)

9 Months Ended

Oct. 02, 2021

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

Income Taxes

INCOME TAXES

The Company maintains management and operational activities in overseas subsidiaries, and its foreign earnings are taxed at rates that are different than the U.S. federal statutory income tax rate. A significant amount of the Company’s earnings are generated by its Canadian, European and Asian subsidiaries and, to a lesser extent, in jurisdictions that are not subject to income tax.

The Company intends to permanently reinvest all non-cash undistributed earnings outside of the U.S. and has, therefore not established a deferred tax liability on that amount of foreign unremitted earnings. However, if these non-cash undistributed earnings were repatriated, the Company would be required to accrue and pay applicable U.S. taxes and withholding taxes payable to various countries. It is not practicable to estimate the amount of the deferred tax liability associated with these non-cash unremitted earnings due to the complexity of the hypothetical calculation.

The Company’s effective tax rates for the quarter and year-to-date ended October 2, 2021 were (11.6)% and 17.1%, respectively. The Company’s effective tax rates for the quarter and year-to-date ended September 26, 2020 were 28.5% and 15.5%, respectively. The lower quarter-to-date effective tax rate is a reflection of lower pretax income in the quarter as well as discrete benefits having a larger impact due to the lower pretax income. The higher year-to-date effective tax rate is due to larger discrete benefits in the prior year in addition to lower pretax income resulting in the discrete benefits having a larger impact to the prior year tax rate.

The Company is subject to periodic audits by U.S. federal, state, local and non-U.S. tax authorities. Currently, the Company is undergoing routine periodic audits in both U.S. federal, state, local and non-U.S. tax jurisdictions. It is reasonably possible that the amounts of unrecognized tax benefits could change in the next 12 months as a result of the audits; however, any payment of tax is not expected to be significant to the consolidated condensed financial statements. The Company is no longer subject to U.S. federal, state and local or non-U.S. income tax examinations by tax authorities for years before 2017 in the majority of tax jurisdictions.