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Income Taxes
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2017
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes
INCOME TAXES

During the three months ended March 31, 2017, the Company recognized Income Tax Expense of $17.6 million on Income before Income Taxes and Equity Income of Unconsolidated Entity of $54.2 million. The effective tax rate for the three months ended March 31, 2017 is lower than the statutory rate due to the mix and levels of earnings between foreign and domestic tax jurisdictions. In addition, the Company recorded a discrete benefit of approximately $2 million during the quarter related to the excess benefit associated with share based payments to employees that vested during the period in accordance with the new guidance in ASU No. 2016-09, Compensation-Stock Compensation (Topic 718), which requires entities to recognize all income tax effects of excess tax benefits and tax deficiencies in the income statement during the period in which the awards vest or are settled.

During the three months ended March 31, 2016, the Company recognized Income Tax Expense of $33.2 million on Income before Income Taxes and Equity Income of Unconsolidated Entity of $90.3 million. The effective tax rate for the three months ended March 31, 2016 was different than the statutory rate due to the mix and levels of earnings between foreign and domestic tax jurisdictions as well as discrete items recorded during the quarter.

As of December 31, 2016, the Company had approximately $351 million of Net Operating Losses (“NOLs”) for U.S. federal income tax purposes which may be used to offset future taxable income.  During the three months ended March 31, 2017, the Company adopted ASU 2016-09 and as a result recorded additional federal and state NOLs of approximately $107 million that were generated through excess tax benefit deductions claimed on the Company’s 2011-2016 U.S. federal income tax returns and were previously prohibited from being recognized. The Company recognized the cumulative federal and state income tax effects of these previously unrecognized NOLs in accumulated deficit in accordance with ASU No. 2016-09. The Company will utilize NOLs during 2017 and expects to have approximately $285 million to $335 million of NOLs remaining at December 31, 2017.  Based on these NOLs and other tax benefits, the Company does not expect to be a meaningful U.S. federal cash taxpayer until 2019.