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Income Taxes
3 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2020
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Taxes INCOME TAXES
For interim periods, accounting standards require that income tax expense be determined by applying the estimated annual effective income tax rate to year-to-date results, unless this method does not result in a reliable estimate of year-to-date income tax expense. Each period, the income tax accrual is adjusted to the latest estimate and the difference from the previously accrued year-to-date balance is adjusted to the current quarter.

For the nine months ended September 30, 2020, our income tax expense reflects an effective rate of 21% as compared to an effective rate of 38% in the comparable period of 2019. For the first nine months of 2020, the effective rate of 21% approximated the U.S. statutory tax rate. In this period, we recognized a $7.0 million benefit from the provisions of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act. For the nine months ended September 30, 2019, the primary differences between the U.S. federal statutory rate of 21% and the effective rate of 38% relates to the effect of tax credits and state tax rate changes.