INCOME TAXES

The following table provides a summary of the Company’s effective tax rate for the three and six months ended June 30, 2016 and 2015:



	Three Months Ended June 30,				Six Months Ended June 30,
	2016		2015		2016		2015

Reported tax rate	3.5	%	(9.6	)%	1.9	%	(9.6	)%

The Company reported income tax expense for the three and six months ended June 30, 2015 related to the taxable income generated by its U.S. subsidiary that was not part of the U.S. consolidated tax group as of June 30, 2015. As such, despite the reported losses before income taxes in those periods, the taxable income generated by such U.S. subsidiary was not allowed to be offset against the taxable losses generated by its other U.S. subsidiaries through August 31, 2015. Effective September 1, 2015, the Company made an election that will allow it to offset any future taxable losses generated by its U.S. subsidiaries against any future taxable income generated by its U.S. subsidiaries.

The Company reported an income tax benefit for the three and six months ended June 30, 2016 which was primarily the result of a refund of tax initially paid toward the income tax return for our U.S. subsidiary which was not part of the U.S. consolidated tax group for the tax period January 1, 2015 through August 31, 2015. In addition, for all periods presented, the pretax losses incurred by the consolidated U.S. tax group received no corresponding tax benefit because we have concluded that it is more likely than not that the Company will be unable to realize the value of any resulting deferred tax assets. The Company will continue to assess its position in future periods to determine if it is appropriate to reduce a portion of its valuation allowance in the future.

The income tax provision in the consolidated statements of operations for periods prior to the spin-off was calculated using the separate return method, as if the Company had filed a separate tax return and operated as a stand-alone business. However, because Integra historically generated taxable income in excess of the Company’s pretax losses incurred prior to the spin-off and all of the Company’s U.S. subsidiaries that incurred these pretax losses were included in Integra’s U.S. consolidated tax group, those pretax losses were more than offset by Integra’s taxable income. Therefore, there were no U.S. net operating losses available to the Company for future use at the date of the spin-off.