Income Taxes

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2018

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

Income Taxes

Income Taxes 

The effective income tax rate on continuing operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2018, was 22.2%. The year-to-date provision for income taxes includes taxes on earnings at an anticipated rate of approximately 24.6% and a year-to-date net discrete tax benefit of $8.4 million. The year-to-date net discrete tax benefit relates primarily to a reduction of unrecognized tax benefits of $4.4 million and excess tax benefits related to employee stock compensation of $4.6 million.

The effective income tax rate on continuing operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2017, was 33.3% and included a year-to-date net discrete tax expense of $0.3 million. The change in the rate from September 30, 2017 to September 30, 2018, was primarily caused by the reduction to the statutory United States income tax rate from 35% to 21% as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“Tax Act”) signed in December 2017.

The changes included in the Tax Act are broad and complex. As such, on December 22, 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued SAB 118. SAB 118 expresses views of the SEC regarding ASC Topic 740, Income Taxes in the reporting period that includes the enactment date of the Tax Act. If a company does not have

the necessary information available, prepared or analyzed for certain income tax effects of the Tax Act, SAB 118 allows a company to report provisional numbers and adjust those amounts during the measurement period not to extend beyond a one-year measurement period. The Company has recorded provisional amounts for all known and estimable impacts of the Tax Act that are effective for the year ended December 31, 2017. During the three months ended September 30, 2018, the Company made a measurement period adjustment related to the Tax Act resulting in a discrete tax expense of $1.3 million. However, the Company will continue to refine its estimates through the allowable measurement period as other calculations have not been finalized nor have there been any changes in the interpretation of the law or additional guidance regarding the law that would materially impact the Company’s provisional amounts.

The Company continues to review the anticipated impacts of the global intangible low taxed income (“GILTI”) and Foreign-Derived Intangible Income deduction (“FDII”) on the Company for 2018. The combined forecasted net impact of both GILTI and FDII are not anticipated to be material to the tax rate.