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

Our effective tax rate was 33.0% and 36.2% for the three months ended March 31, 2018 and 2017, respectively. On December 22, 2017, H.R. 1, commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (“the 2017 Tax Act”) was signed by the U.S. President, which enacted various changes to the U.S. corporate tax law. Some of the most significant provisions affecting us include a reduced U.S. corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21% effective in 2018, a one-time “deemed repatriation” tax on unremitted earnings accumulated in non-U.S. jurisdictions and reported on the 2017 corporate income tax return, and a 2018 and forward minimum tax on global intangible low-taxed income ("GILTI"). At 2017 year-end, we recorded an estimated provisional deemed repatriation tax of $8.1 million. Subsequently, the IRS issued additional guidance regarding the calculation of the deemed repatriation tax and we recorded an additional accrual of $1.2 million increasing the effective tax rate by 3.5%. In 2018, we recorded an estimated GILTI tax of $0.6 million increasing the effective tax rate by 1.7%. Additionally, we have not recorded a tax benefit for losses in the UK resulting in an increase of 1.6% and 2.3% to the effective tax rate for the three months ended March 31, 2018 and March 31, 2017, respectively.

As of March 31, 2018, we estimated and provided U.S. net tax of $9.9 million on our cumulative undistributed non-US earnings as part of the 2017 repatriation tax provision and the 2018 GILTI tax in the 2017 Tax Act.  We intend to reinvest our foreign earnings indefinitely in our non-U.S. operations and therefore have not provided for any non-U.S. withholding tax that would be assessed on dividend distributions.  If the earnings of $160.0 million were distributed to the U.S., we would be subject to estimated Canadian withholding taxes of approximately $8.0 million. In the event the earnings were distributed to the U.S., we would adjust our income tax provision for the period and would determine the amount of foreign tax credit that would be available.