XML 22 R11.htm IDEA: XBRL DOCUMENT v3.8.0.1
Income Taxes
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2018
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes
Note 6 — INCOME TAXES
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) was enacted on December 22, 2017. Among other things, effective in 2018, the TCJA reduces the U.S. federal corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%, exempts from U.S. federal income taxation dividends from certain foreign corporations to their U.S. shareholders, eliminates or reduces the effect of various federal tax deductions and creates new taxes on certain outbound payments and future foreign earnings generated after 2017. The TCJA also requires U.S. companies to pay a one-time transition tax on earnings of foreign corporate subsidiaries that are at least ten-percent owned by such U.S. companies and that were previously deferred from U.S. taxation.
We have not completed our accounting for the tax effects of the enactment of the TCJA; however, in compliance with the SEC's amendment to Staff Accounting Bulletin (SAB) 118 (issued December 22, 2017), we have made a reasonable estimate of the effects on our existing deferred income tax balances and the one-time transition tax, which was included as a component of income tax expense from continuing operations for the year ending December 31, 2017. Accordingly, we have not made any additional measurement period adjustments related to these items during the three months ended March 31, 2018. Once we have finalized our 2017 tax returns, we will update our estimates based on our completed review, including the consideration of additional clarifications on the TCJA from the U.S. government. Any adjustments to our provisional amounts will be disclosed in our respective filings within the one-year measurement period provided by SAB 118.
We have elected to recognize the resulting tax on the global intangible low-taxed income (GILTI) as a period expense in the period the tax is incurred and we have included a provisional estimate for GILTI in our estimated annual effective tax rate.
During the three months ended March 31, 2018, the Company’s effective tax rate of 25.9% was above the Company's U.S. federal statutory rate of 21.0%. This was primarily a result of a foreign withholding tax liability associated with the repatriation of certain foreign earnings (5.3%) and contemplation of GILTI to our current year operations (1.5%), which was partially offset by lower statutory tax rate differences on foreign earnings.
During the three months ended March 31, 2017, the Company’s effective tax rate of 29.0% was below the Company's federal statutory rate of 35.0% primarily due to lower statutory tax rate differences on foreign earnings.