Income Taxes

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2025

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

Income Taxes

INCOME TAXES

For the three months ended March 31, 2025, we earned $97.2 million before taxes and recorded a provision for income taxes of $17.7 million resulting in an effective tax rate of 18.3%. The effective tax rate varied from the U.S. federal statutory rate for the three months ended March 31, 2025 primarily due to the net impact of U.S. discrete items, partially offset by state income taxes.

For the three months ended March 31, 2024, we earned $98.1 million before taxes and recorded a provision for income taxes of $20.1 million resulting in an effective tax rate of 20.5%. The effective tax rate varied from the U.S. federal statutory rate for the three months ended March 31, 2024 primarily due to the net impact of foreign operations and state income taxes.

The Company maintains a full valuation allowance against the net deferred tax assets in certain foreign tax jurisdictions as of March 31, 2025. As of each reporting date, management considers new evidence, both positive and negative, that could affect its view of the future realization of net deferred tax assets. We assess our forecast of future taxable income and available tax planning strategies that could be implemented to realize the net deferred tax assets in determining the sufficiency of our valuation allowances. Failure to achieve forecasted taxable income in the applicable tax jurisdictions could affect the ultimate realization of deferred tax assets and could result in an increase in our effective tax rate on future earnings. It is possible there may be sufficient positive evidence to release a portion of the remaining valuation allowance in those foreign jurisdictions. Release of the valuation allowance would result in a benefit to income tax expense for the period the release is recorded, which could have a material impact on net earnings. The timing and amount of the potential valuation allowance release are subject to significant management judgment and the level of profitability achieved.

On December 20, 2021, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (“OECD”) released the Model GloBE Rules for Pillar Two defining a 15% global minimum tax rate for large multinational corporations. Many countries continue to consider changes in their tax laws and regulations based on the Pillar Two proposals. We are continuing to evaluate the impact of these proposed and enacted legislative changes as new guidance becomes available. Some of these legislative changes could result in double taxation of our non-U.S. earnings, a reduction in the tax benefit received from our tax incentives, or other impacts to our effective tax rate and tax liabilities. As of March 31, 2025, the company is not expecting material impacts under currently enacted legislation.