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INCOME TAXES
6 Months Ended
Dec. 30, 2017
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
INCOME TAXES
INCOME TAXES
The income tax provision of $3.2 million and $9.4 million for the three and six months ended December 30, 2017, respectively, relates primarily to our foreign operations. The income tax provision of $37,000 and $0.4 million for the three and six months ended December 31, 2016, respectively, relates primarily to our foreign operations, which included a $0.5 million release of a reserve in Italy due to the expiration of the applicable statute of limitations.
The total amount of our unrecognized tax benefits as of December 30, 2017 and July 1, 2017 were approximately $3.5 million and $3.5 million, respectively. As of December 30, 2017, we had $2.9 million of unrecognized tax benefits that, if recognized, would affect our effective tax rate. While it is often difficult to predict the final outcome of any particular uncertain tax position, we believe that unrecognized tax benefits could decrease by approximately $1.3 million in the next twelve months.
On December 22, 2017, the TCJA was signed into law. Among other things, the TCJA permanently lowers the corporate federal income tax rate to 21 percent from the existing maximum rate of 35 percent, effective for tax years including or commencing January 1, 2018. Since we operate on a 52/53 week year ending on the Saturday closest to June 30, the lower corporate income tax rate will be phased in, resulting in a U.S. statutory federal rate of approximately 28 percent for our fiscal year ending June 30, 2018, and 21 percent for subsequent fiscal years. As a result of the reduction of the corporate federal income tax rate to 21 percent, U.S. GAAP requires companies to re-value their deferred tax assets and deferred tax liabilities as of the date of enactment, with the resulting tax effects accounted for in the reporting period of enactment. As a result, we have concluded this will cause our net deferred taxes to be re-measured at the new lower tax rate. The estimated rate change impact to our net deferred tax assets is a reduction of $32.4 million. We maintain a full valuation allowance on our U.S. net deferred tax assets. Deferred tax asset re-measurement (tax expense) will be offset by a net decrease in valuation allowance, resulting in no impact on our income tax for the period ending December 30, 2017. We have not completed the revaluation calculation and will disclose any adjustments in our fiscal year end financial statements.
Additionally, the TCJA introduces new international tax provisions that will be effective for our fiscal year 2019, including (i) a new provision designed to currently tax the global low-taxed income of our foreign subsidiaries, together with a deduction of up to 50 percent and a partial credit for foreign taxes incurred by the foreign subsidiaries; (ii) limitations on the deductibility of certain base eroding payments to foreign entities; and (iii) limitations on the use of foreign tax credits to reduce U.S. income tax liability. While each of these provisions may have an impact on our tax expense for fiscal year 2019 and future periods, we expect the tax on low-taxed income of foreign subsidiaries to have the most significant impact.
Because of the complexity of the new tax on low-taxed income of foreign subsidiaries and uncertainties regarding its application in certain circumstances, we are continuing to evaluate this provision of the TCJA and its impact on our determination of the realizability of our deferred tax assets. We elected to utilize the reporting provisions of SAB 118, as we did not have the necessary information available, prepared or analyzed for certain future taxable income tax effects of the TCJA in order to determine a reasonable estimate to be included as provisional amounts. We will not adjust our current or deferred taxes for those tax effects of the TCJA, for which we are unable to reasonably estimate, until a reasonable estimate can be determined.