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Income Taxes
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2019
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes

NOTE 11 INCOME TAXES

The Company’s effective tax rate for the three months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018 was 23.6% and 22.9%, respectively, and 23.2% and 24.0% for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively.

The Company is subject to federal income taxes as well as taxes in various state, local and foreign jurisdictions. Tax statutes and regulations within each jurisdiction are subject to interpretation and require the application of significant judgment. The Company’s 2016 through 2018 tax years remain subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service for federal tax purposes. Certain significant state, local and foreign tax returns also remain open under the applicable statute of limitations and are subject to examination for the tax years from 2015 to 2018.

The Company does not have any liability for unrecognized tax benefits as of September 30, 2019. There were no tax positions that, if recognized, would have a favorable impact on the Company’s effective tax rate.

The Company does not recognize accrued interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits as a component of tax expense. The Company has made no provision for deferred U.S. income taxes or additional foreign taxes on future unremitted earnings of its controlled foreign subsidiaries because the Company considers these earnings to be permanently invested.

On December 20, 2017, the U.S. Congress passed the Tax Act, which was signed into law on December 22, 2017 and was generally effective beginning January 1, 2018. The Company has been impacted in several ways as a result of the Tax Act, including, but not limited to, a permanent reduction in the federal corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21%.  The Company completed the accounting for the tax effects of the enactment of the Tax Act in the fourth quarter of 2018.

The Tax Act subjects U.S. corporations to current tax on global intangible low-taxed income (or “GILTI”) earned by certain foreign subsidiaries. Pursuant to a FASB Staff Q&A, Topic 740 No. 5, “Accounting for Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income”, an entity can make an accounting policy election to either recognize deferred taxes for temporary differences expected to reverse as GILTI in future years or provide for the tax expense related to GILTI resulting from those items in the year the tax is incurred. The Company elected in the first quarter of fiscal year 2018 to recognize the resulting tax on GILTI as a period expense in the period the tax was incurred.  The GILTI tax provisions for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018 were immaterial.