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INCOME TAXES
9 Months Ended
Dec. 29, 2018
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
INCOME TAXES
INCOME TAXES

The Company conducts business globally and reports its results of operations in a number of foreign jurisdictions in addition to the United States. The Company's reported tax rate is impacted by the jurisdictional mix of earnings in any given period as the foreign jurisdictions in which it operates have tax rates that differ from the U.S. statutory tax rate.

The Company's reported tax rate for the three and nine months ended December 29, 2018 was 28.2% and 34.0%, respectively. The tax rate for the three and nine months ended December 29, 2018 includes a discrete stock compensation windfall benefit of $1.8 million and $5.8 million, respectively. The Company's effective tax rate for the three and nine months ended December 29, 2018 was negatively impacted by certain provisions of the recently enacted U.S. tax reform as discussed below. In addition, the effective tax rate for the nine months ended December 29, 2018 is higher than the U.S. statutory tax rate primarily as a result of the jurisdictional mix of earnings, including an asset impairment expense of $21.2 million recorded in pretax income for which no tax benefit was recognized as a result of the valuation allowance maintained against its deferred tax assets in the impacted jurisdiction. Refer to Note 8, Property, Plant and Equipment for additional details.

During the three months ended December 29, 2018 and December 30, 2017, the Company reported an income tax provision of $7.2 million and $6.8 million, respectively. During the nine months ended December 29, 2018 and December 30, 2017, the Company reported an income tax provision of $17.6 million and $12.6 million, respectively. The change in the Company's tax provision for both the three and nine months ended December 29, 2018 was primarily due to an increase in the tax expense of its U.S. entity, which was impacted by the U.S. tax reform provisions, including Global Intangible Low Taxed Income, partially offset by a discrete stock compensation windfall benefit.

During the third quarter of fiscal 2018, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the "Act") was enacted in the United States. In addition, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued guidance under Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 118, Income Tax Accounting Implications of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that directed taxpayers to consider the impact of the U.S. legislation as “provisional” when it does not have the necessary information available, prepared or analyzed (including computations) in reasonable detail to complete its accounting for the change in tax law. As of December 29, 2018, the Company has completed its accounting for the tax effects of the enactment of the Act. During the three and nine months ended December 29, 2018, the Company recognized an immaterial adjustment to the provisional tax expense estimate recorded related to the Act.

The Company has incorporated the other impacts of the Act that became effective in fiscal 2019 in the calculation of the year to date tax provision and effective tax rate, including the provisions related to Global Intangible Low Taxed Income, Foreign Derived Intangible Income, Base Erosion Anti Abuse Tax, as well as other provisions which limit tax deductibility of expenses.

The Company is in a three year cumulative loss position in the U.S. and, accordingly, maintains a valuation allowance against certain U.S. deferred tax assets. Additionally, the Company also maintains a valuation allowance against certain other deferred tax assets primarily in Switzerland, Puerto Rico, Luxembourg and France which it has concluded are not more-likely-than-not realizable.