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Income Taxes
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2018
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes

NOTE 11 – INCOME TAXES

Our provision for income taxes as a percentage of pretax earnings is based on a current estimate of the annual effective income tax rate adjusted to reflect the impact of discrete items.

During the three months ended March 31, 2018, our effective tax rate was 26.0%. This rate was favorably impacted primarily by the enactment of Pub.L. 115–97, an Act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018 (the “Tax Act”). The Tax Act reduced the U.S federal corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% effective January 1, 2018, among other changes. ASC Topic 740, Accounting for Income Taxes, requires companies to recognize the effect of tax law changes in the period of enactment. ASU 2018-05 and Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 118 (“SAB 118”) issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission allow a company to record a provisional amount when it does not have the necessary information available, prepared, or analyzed (including computations) in reasonable detail to complete the accounting for certain tax effects of the Tax Act. We have recognized the provisional tax impacts of the Tax Act in our consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2017 included within our 2017 Form 10-K. Based on a review of the guidance issued by the Internal Revenue Service in the first quarter of 2018, no adjustment to the provisional amount recorded in the consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2017 was deemed necessary. We continue to assess new guidance and refine our computation of these provisional amounts and will complete our analysis within the one-year measurement period ending December 22, 2018.