Income Taxes	6 Months Ended
Jun. 25, 2020
Income Taxes
Income Taxes	7. Income Taxes The Company’s effective income tax rate, adjusted for earnings (losses) from noncontrolling interests, for the 13 and 26 weeks ended June 25, 2020 was 52.5% and 44.0%, respectively, and was 23.7% and 22.0% for the 13 and 26 weeks ended June 27, 2019, respectively. The Company’s effective income tax rate during the 13 and 26 weeks ended June 25, 2020 benefitted from several accounting method changes and the March 27, 2020 signing of the CARES Act, one of the provisions of which allows the Company’s 2019 and 2020 taxable losses to be carried back to prior fiscal years during which the federal income tax rate was 35%, compared to the current statutory federal income tax rate of 21%. The Company does not include the income tax expense or benefit related to the net earnings or loss attributable to noncontrolling interests in its income tax expense as the entity is considered a pass-through entity and, as such, the income tax expense or benefit is attributable to its owners. The Company has evaluated the provisions of the CARES Act. Among other things, the CARES Act includes provisions relating to refundable payroll tax credits, deferment of employer-side social security payments, net operating loss carryback periods, alternative minimum tax credit refunds, modifications to the net interest deduction limitations and technical corrections to tax depreciation methods for qualified improvement property. After reviewing these provisions, the Company is filing income tax refund claims of approximately $37,400,000 in the third quarter of fiscal 2020, with the primary benefit derived from several accounting method changes and new rules for qualified improvement property expenditures and net operating loss carrybacks. The Company also expects to apply a significant portion of an anticipated tax loss to be incurred in fiscal 2020 to prior year income for what may be a refund of approximately $21,000,000 in fiscal 2021 when its fiscal 2020 tax return is filed (with possible tax loss carryforwards that may be used in future years).

Income Taxes

6 Months Ended

Jun. 25, 2020

7. Income Taxes

The Company’s effective income tax rate, adjusted for earnings (losses) from noncontrolling interests, for the 13 and 26 weeks ended June 25, 2020 was 52.5% and 44.0%, respectively, and was 23.7% and 22.0% for the 13 and 26 weeks ended June 27, 2019, respectively. The Company’s effective income tax rate during the 13 and 26 weeks ended June 25, 2020 benefitted from several accounting method changes and the March 27, 2020 signing of the CARES Act, one of the provisions of which allows the Company’s 2019 and 2020 taxable losses to be carried back to prior fiscal years during which the federal income tax rate was 35%, compared to the current statutory federal income tax rate of 21%. The Company does not include the income tax expense or benefit related to the net earnings or loss attributable to noncontrolling interests in its income tax expense as the entity is considered a pass-through entity and, as such, the income tax expense or benefit is attributable to its owners.

The Company has evaluated the provisions of the CARES Act. Among other things, the CARES Act includes provisions relating to refundable payroll tax credits, deferment of employer-side social security payments, net operating loss carryback periods, alternative minimum tax credit refunds, modifications to the net interest deduction limitations and technical corrections to tax depreciation methods for qualified improvement property. After reviewing these provisions, the Company is filing income tax refund claims of approximately $37,400,000 in the third quarter of fiscal 2020, with the primary benefit derived from several accounting method changes and new rules for qualified improvement property expenditures and net operating loss carrybacks. The Company also expects to apply a significant portion of an anticipated tax loss to be incurred in fiscal 2020 to prior year income for what may be a refund of approximately $21,000,000 in fiscal 2021 when its fiscal 2020 tax return is filed (with possible tax loss carryforwards that may be used in future years).