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Income Taxes
3 Months Ended
Nov. 28, 2013
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Income Taxes
Income Taxes

Income taxes for the first quarter of 2014 included a tax provision of $73 million primarily related to the utilization of deferred tax assets as a result of Elpida's operations.  Remaining taxes for the first quarters of 2014 and 2013 primarily reflect taxes on our non-U.S. operations. We have a full valuation allowance for our net deferred tax asset associated with our U.S. operations.  The provision (benefit) for taxes on U.S. operations in the first quarters of 2014 and 2013 was substantially offset by changes in the valuation allowance.

We currently operate in several tax jurisdictions where we have arrangements that allow us to compute our tax provision at rates below the local statutory rates that expire in whole or in part at various dates through 2026.  These arrangements benefitted our tax provision in the first quarters of 2014 and 2013 by $76 million ($0.06 per diluted share) and $11 million ($0.01 per diluted share), respectively.