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INCOME TAXES
9 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2018
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
INCOME TAXES
INCOME TAXES
In determining its quarterly provision for income taxes, the Company uses an estimated annual effective tax rate, which is based on expected annual income, statutory tax rates and tax planning opportunities available in the various jurisdictions in which the Company operates. Certain significant or unusual items are separately recognized in the quarter in which they occur and can be a source of variability in the effective tax rates from quarter to quarter. The effective tax rate on earnings from continuing operations was 25.5% and 19.0% for the three and nine months ended March 31, 2018, respectively, and 30.2% and 32.1% for the three and nine months ended March 31, 2017, respectively. The decrease in the effective tax rate on earnings from continuing operations for the current three- and nine-month periods was primarily due to the enactment of the Tax Act during the second quarter of fiscal year 2018 (the period of the Tax Act's enactment).

The Tax Act was signed into law by the President of the United States on December 22, 2017. The Tax Act makes significant changes to U.S. tax law, and includes a reduction of U.S. corporation statutory income tax rates from 35% to 21% effective January 1, 2018. Under the Tax Act, the Company is subject to an average federal statutory tax rate of 28.1% for its fiscal year ending June 30, 2018. The Company’s federal statutory tax rate will be 21.0% beginning in July 2018 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019. The Tax Act also includes, among other things, a one-time transition tax on accumulated foreign earnings and the adoption of a modified territorial approach to the taxation of future foreign earnings.

Under U.S. GAAP, deferred taxes must be adjusted for enacted changes in tax laws or rates during the period in which new tax legislation is enacted. As of March 31, 2018, the Company continued to obtain, prepare and analyze information necessary to finalize the accounting for the impacts of the Tax Act. Consequently, reasonable estimates of the impacts of the Tax Act on the Company’s deferred tax balances and one-time transition tax have been reported as provisional, as defined in Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 118.

Based on the provisions of the Tax Act, the Company provisionally remeasured its net deferred tax liabilities to incorporate the future lower corporate tax rate resulting in a $33 reduction to net deferred tax liabilities in the period of the Tax Act's enactment. In addition, remeasurements specifically related to the reversal of deferred tax liabilities for U.S. tax on foreign unremitted earnings, related deferred foreign tax credits and related unrealized foreign exchange gains and losses, reduced the Company’s net deferred tax liability by a provisional amount of $27. These reductions in the net deferred tax liabilities were recognized as a benefit in the Company’s provision for income taxes. The Company is continuing to analyze certain aspects of the Tax Act and is refining its calculations which could potentially affect the measurements of these balances or potentially give rise to new deferred tax amounts. The total provisional amounts related to the remeasurement of the Company’s deferred tax balances resulted in a $60 beneficial impact in the period of the Tax Act's enactment.

A provisional, one-time transition tax expense on accumulated foreign earnings, net of applicable foreign tax credits, of $7 was recognized in the Company’s provision for income taxes in the period of the Tax Act's enactment. This amount may change as the Company continues to finalize the calculation of post-1986 foreign earnings and profits previously deferred from U.S. federal taxation and the amounts held in cash or other specified assets. This amount may also change as new guidance and clarifications are issued by the Internal Revenue Service. The Company anticipates that it will be able to utilize existing foreign tax credit carryforwards to fully offset its one-time transition tax liability.

The impact recognized in the period of the Tax Act's enactment also included a provisional $28 benefit related to current year taxable income. Taken together, total benefits of $81 were recorded in the period of the Tax Act's enactment and were due to several provisional adjustments including net deferred tax liability reductions of $60, a beneficial current taxable income impact of $28 and a provisional one-time transition tax of $7. Measurement adjustments to the provisional amounts were not significant for the third quarter of fiscal year 2018.

Per U.S. GAAP, foreign withholding taxes are not provided when foreign earnings are indefinitely reinvested. The Company regularly reviews and assesses whether there are any changes to its indefinite reinvestment assertion. Through the second quarter of fiscal year 2018, the Company had determined that the undistributed earnings of a number of its foreign subsidiaries were indefinitely reinvested. In the third quarter of fiscal year 2018, the Company made the determination that none of the undistributed earnings of its foreign subsidiaries were indefinitely reinvested due to the passage of the Tax Act, which significantly reduced the cost of U.S. repatriation. As a result, the Company is providing foreign withholding taxes on the undistributed earnings of all foreign subsidiaries where applicable, which has no significant impact on the Company’s consolidated results.