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Income Taxes
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2017
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes
Income Taxes
The Company's tax provision for interim periods is determined using an estimate of its annual effective tax rate, adjusted for discrete items. The Company’s effective tax rate is expressed as income tax expense (benefit), which includes tax expense on the Company’s share of joint venture earnings in the three months ended March 31, 2016, as a percentage of loss from continuing operations before income taxes and equity in earnings of joint venture.
For the three months ended March 31, 2017, the Company recorded income tax benefit of $63 on pre-tax loss from continuing operations of $13,555, for an effective tax rate of 0.5%. For the three months ended March 31, 2016, the Company recorded income tax benefit of $335 on pre-tax loss from continuing operations before equity in earnings of joint venture of $45,450, for an effective tax rate of 0.7%.
The Company's U.S. statutory rate is 35%. The most significant factors impacting the effective tax rate for the three months ended March 31, 2017 and 2016 were losses in jurisdictions that the Company is not able to benefit due to uncertainty as to the realization of those losses, release of valuation allowances in jurisdictions that have become profitable, and the impact of intraperiod allocations.