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INCOME TAXES (Notes)
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2018
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Tax Disclosure [Text Block]
INCOME TAXES
Our effective income tax rate was 24.9% for the third quarter of 2018, compared with 28.2% for the third quarter of 2017. The current quarter rate benefited from the decrease in the U.S. corporate income tax rate under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed into law in December 2017, partially offset by tax expense of $251,000 related to completion of a state tax audit, while the prior year quarter benefited from the tax impact of our legal settlement with AGF.
Our effective income tax rate was 25.3% for the nine months ended September 30, 2018, compared with 29.1% for the nine months ended September 30, 2017. The current year-to-date rate benefited from the decrease in the U.S. corporate income tax rate under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed into law in December 2017, partially offset by tax expense related to completion of a state tax audit, while the first nine months of 2017 benefited from the tax impact of our legal settlement with AGF and included a $1.0 million tax benefit related to the adoption of ASU 2016-09 Compensation - Stock Compensation: Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting. Excluding this discrete tax benefit, our effective tax rate would have been 33.0% for the nine months ended September 30, 2017.
Tax Reform Act
On December 22, 2017, the SEC staff issued Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 118 (“SAB 118”) to address the application of U.S. GAAP in situations when a registrant does not have the necessary information available, prepared, or analyzed (including computations) in reasonable detail to complete the accounting for certain income tax effects of the Tax Reform Act. During 2017, we provisionally recognized the incremental tax impacts related to deemed repatriated earnings and the revaluation of deferred tax assets and liabilities and included these amounts in our Consolidated Financial Statements for the year ended December 31, 2017. We completed the accounting for our 2017 U.S. corporate income tax return in the third quarter of 2018 and made no significant changes to the amounts provisionally recognized.
Tax Audit
The Company is subject to taxation in the United States and various state and foreign jurisdictions, and during the first nine months of 2018, our 2014 tax return was audited in a state jurisdiction in which we operate. The audit was completed in September 2018, and we recorded and paid income taxes and interest expense of $251,000 and $81,000, respectively, during the third quarter of 2018, which are included within “Provision for income taxes” and “General and administrative expenses,” respectively, in our Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income. No penalties were assessed by the state.