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Income Taxes
3 Months Ended
Aug. 31, 2016
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes

NOTE 7 — INCOME TAXES

The effective income tax rate was 23.6% for the three months ended August 31, 2016 compared to an effective income tax rate of 29.4% for the three month ended August 31, 2015.

The effective tax rate for the three month periods ended August 31, 2016 and 2015 reflect variances from the 35% federal statutory rate primarily due to lower effective tax rate of certain of our foreign subsidiaries, the benefit of the domestic manufacturing deduction and the unfavorable impact of state and local taxes.

Additionally, as a result of our current quarter early adoption of ASU 2016-09, “Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting”, we recorded a $10.4 million discrete tax benefit for excess tax benefits related to equity compensation that were generated during the three months ended August 31, 2016. Please see Note 2, “New Accounting Pronouncements,” for additional discussion regarding our adoption of the standard.  

At May 31, 2016, we determined that it was possible that we would repatriate approximately $377.3 million of undistributed foreign earnings in the foreseeable future. Accordingly, as of May 31, 2016, we recorded a deferred income tax liability of $98.5 million, which represented our estimate of the net U.S income and foreign withholding tax associated with the $377.3 million of unremitted foreign earnings. As of August 31, 2016, the amount of undistributed earnings that may be repatriated and the corresponding deferred tax liability has been adjusted to $377.0 million and $98.1 million, respectively.  The adjustments are due to foreign currency translation and changes in the underlying U.S. tax attributes.  We have not provided for U.S. income and foreign withholding taxes on the remaining foreign subsidiaries’ undistributed earnings because such earnings have been retained and reinvested by the subsidiaries as of August 31, 2016.  Accordingly, no provision has been made for U.S. income taxes or foreign withholding taxes, which may become payable if the remaining undistributed earnings of foreign subsidiaries were paid to us as dividends.