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INCOME TAXES
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2014
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
INCOME TAXES
INCOME TAXES
The Company’s worldwide effective tax rate for the three months ended September 30, 2014 and 2013 was 14.9% and 19.3%, respectively, and 17.9% and 19.1% during the nine months ended September 30, 2014 and 2013, respectively. There were several factors that led to the movement in the Company’s worldwide effective tax rate for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2014, as compared to the corresponding periods of 2013. The primary factors that caused this decrease in the rate for the above-mentioned periods are:  (a) favorable adjustments to the statutory rates in several countries, primarily the United Kingdom and Ukraine and (b) release of the ASC 740-10 reserve during the third quarter of 2014 in the amount $1.2 million. This reserve was initially posted as a tax expense in 2010 as the Company's position in 2010 was deemed uncertain.  This reserve remained on the balance sheet through the initial tax year and subsequent tax years until the federal statute expired in the quarter ended September 30, 2014 and the whole reserve was properly released. The other primary factors represented below would have increased the effective tax rate in 2014 if it were not for (a) and (b) above:  the acquisitions completed in the second quarter of 2014, which added other tax jurisdictions into the Company’s worldwide effective tax rate analysis; also a larger portion of the Company’s pre-tax profits attributable to tax jurisdictions with relatively higher effective tax rates (as compared to effective tax rates within the Commonwealth of Independent States (“CIS”) region) were seen in 2014 and a relative shift in offshore services performed in Belarus, where the Company is currently entitled to a 100% exemption from Belarusian income tax, to other countries in the CIS region (specifically Ukraine, and to a lesser extent Russia), both of which have higher income tax rates than Belarus.