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Income Taxes
6 Months Ended
Dec. 28, 2018
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes
Note L — Income Taxes
On December 22, 2017, H.R.1, also known as the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” was signed into U.S. law (“Tax Act”). Among other provisions, the Tax Act reduced the U.S. statutory corporate income tax rate from a maximum 35 percent to a flat 21 percent, effective January 1, 2018.
Effective Tax Rate
Our effective tax rate (income taxes as a percentage of income from continuing operations before income taxes) was 17.0 percent in the quarter ended December 28, 2018 compared with 41.8 percent in the quarter ended December 29, 2017. In the quarter ended December 28, 2018, our effective tax rate benefited from a reduction in the deferred tax liability maintained on the basis differences related to the unremitted foreign earnings and an increase in the research and development (“R&D”) credit, partially offset by an unfavorable impact of the differences in GAAP and tax accounting related to investments. In the quarter ended December 29, 2017, our effective tax rate was impacted by a $58 million ($.48 per diluted share) write-down of existing net deferred tax asset balances based on the lower tax rate and other tax law changes from the Tax Act, a $26 million ($.21 per diluted share) benefit from the impact of our lower fiscal 2018 tax rate, a $22 million ($.18 per diluted share) favorable impact of releasing provisions for uncertain tax positions and the favorable impact of differences in GAAP and tax accounting related to investments.
Our effective tax rate was 16.5 percent in the two quarters ended December 28, 2018 compared with 34.7 percent in the two quarters ended December 29, 2017. In addition to the items noted above for the quarters ended December 28, 2018 and December 29, 2017, our effective tax rate for the two quarters ended December 28, 2018 and December 29, 2017 benefited from the favorable impact of excess tax benefits related to equity-based compensation.
Tax Law Changes
During the quarter ended December 28, 2018, we completed our accounting for the income tax impact of enactment of the Tax Act and there were no material changes from the estimates reported in our Fiscal 2017-2018 Update 8-K.
The Tax Act provides for a one-time transition tax on our post-1986 earnings and profits of foreign subsidiaries (“foreign E&P”) that was previously deferred from U.S. income tax expense. We have determined that we do not owe any one-time transition tax.
We have also completed our evaluation of the U.S. federal corporate income tax impacts of the Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income and Foreign-Derived Intangible Income provisions of the Tax Act, and our tax expense includes the impact of these provisions as a period cost in our effective tax rate.
Because of the potential impact of deficit allocations on the tax basis for netted foreign E&P, we are maintaining a deferred tax liability of approximately $19 million in respect of potential cumulative tax basis differences of $88 million. Other than this deferred tax liability, we have not provided for additional income taxes on any remaining undistributed foreign E&P not subject to the transition tax, or any outside tax basis differences inherent in our foreign subsidiaries, because all other amounts continue to be reinvested indefinitely.