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Taxes on Income
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2018
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Taxes on Income
TAXES ON INCOME
The Company’s effective tax rate in the quarter and nine-month period ended September 30, 2018 was a benefit of 1,275.0% on a pre-tax loss and an expense of 22.9% on pre-tax income, respectively. These effective rates were positively impacted by a $1.5 million adjustment to the mandatory deemed repatriation tax on foreign earnings and a $1.5 million net tax benefit related to employee share-based awards that vested during the first quarter of 2018. In total, these two adjustments had a 39.3% benefit to the effective tax rate during the first nine months of 2018. Offsetting these positive impacts were valuation allowances recorded on certain net operating losses in foreign jurisdictions for which no income tax benefit can be recognized.
For the quarter and nine-month period ended September 30, 2017, the Company’s effective tax rate was a benefit of 7.4% on a pre-tax loss and an expense of 2.2% on a pre-tax loss, respectively. The low effective tax rates, as compared to the U.S. federal statutory income tax rate, were unfavorably impacted by: (i) significant pre-tax charges related to goodwill and definite-lived intangible asset impairments, certain of which are not deductible for tax purposes; and (ii) the impact of establishing a $14.9 million valuation allowance on net operating losses and other deferred tax assets in jurisdictions, primarily in the United States, where the Company is unlikely to recognize these benefits. The effective tax rate for the first nine months of 2017 was also unfavorably impacted by a higher mix of earnings in the United States, primarily from income generated on a large deepwater project in the Company’s pipe coating and insulation operation.