INCOME TAXES

6 Months Ended

Apr. 30, 2023

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

INCOME TAXES

INCOME TAXES

Our quarterly tax provision is calculated using an estimated annual tax rate that is adjusted for discrete items occurring during the period to arrive at our effective tax rate. During the three and six months ended April 30, 2023, we had effective tax rates of 28.2% and 27.6%, respectively, resulting in provisions for taxes of $20.4 million and $34.5 million, respectively. During the three and six months ended April 30, 2022, we had effective tax rates of 28.0% and 25.7%, respectively, resulting in provisions for taxes of $19.0 million and $43.2 million, respectively. The difference between the effective tax rate and statutory rate is primarily related to state income taxes, non-deductible compensation, and non-taxable change in the fair value of the contingent consideration related to the RavenVolt Acquisition.

Our effective tax rates for the three months ended April 30, 2023, and April 30, 2022, were not impacted by any significant discrete items.

Our effective tax rate for the six months ended April 30, 2023, was benefited by discrete items, primarily by $1.4 million for share-based compensation. Our effective tax rate for the six months ended April 30, 2022, was benefited by discrete items, primarily by $3.4 million change in tax reserves.

In 2020, Congress enacted the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”) that included various payroll tax provisions. Through December 2020, we deferred approximately $132 million of payroll tax. The deferred payroll tax has been remitted in full: $66 million was paid in December 2021 and the remaining $66 million was paid in December 2022.

We plan to reinvest our foreign earnings to fund future non-U.S. growth and expansion, and we do not anticipate remitting such earnings to the United States. While U.S. federal tax expense has been recognized as a result of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, no deferred tax liabilities with respect to federal and state income taxes or foreign withholding taxes have been recognized.