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Income Taxes
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2020
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes INCOME TAXES

The Company determines its interim tax provision using the annual effective tax rate methodology as required by ASC 740-270. However, the Company has utilized a discrete effective tax rate method to calculate taxes for the six months ended June 30, 2020. The Company has determined that the use of this discrete method is more appropriate than the full year effective tax rate method. The variability inherent in the forecasted pretax income when combined with the forecasted permanent book-tax differences produces a result that a small change in pretax ordinary income will have a very significant impact on the forecasted effective tax rate. As a result, the Company has determined that the forecasted effective tax rate is unreliable.

The Company's income tax provision, on a consolidated basis, amounted to an income tax benefit of $(56.5) million, or (108.84)% of income (loss) from operations before income taxes and equity in earnings of operating joint venture, in the first six months of 2020, compared to $(51.5) million, or (60.03)%, in the first six months of 2019. The Company's current and prior effective tax rates differed from the U.S. statutory tax rate of 21% primarily due to non-taxable investment income and tax credits.


On March 27, 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the “CARES Act”) was enacted into law. One provision of the CARES Act amends the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”) and allows companies with net operating losses (“NOLs”) originating in 2018, 2019 or 2020 to carry back those losses for five years. The Company has incorporated into the year-to-date effective tax rate an income tax benefit of $30 million that would result from carrying the estimated 2020 NOL back to tax years that have a 35% tax rate. This amount is an estimate and will change if the amount of, and sources of, 2020 net taxable income are different from forecast.