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Income Taxes
6 Months Ended
Dec. 29, 2013
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes
Income Taxes

The Company must recognize the tax benefit from an uncertain tax position only if it is more likely than not that the tax position will be sustained on examination by the taxing authorities, based on the technical merits of the position. The tax benefits recognized in the financial statements from such a position are measured based on the largest benefit that has a greater than fifty percent likelihood of being realized upon ultimate resolution. As of December 29, 2013, the Company's other long-term liabilities account includes $37.1 million of unrecognized tax benefits of which approximately $16.4 million would favorably impact its effective income tax rate in future periods if the Company's positions on these tax matters are upheld.  The Company's policy is to recognize interest and/or penalties related to income tax matters in income tax expense. Included in the liability for unrecognized tax benefits was $3.0 million accrued for interest at December 29, 2013.

The Company's effective income tax rates for the second quarter and the first six months of fiscal year 2014 were 25.00% and 25.25%, respectively, as compared to 27.00% in the same periods of fiscal year 2013.  The decrease in the effective income tax rates from the prior year periods was primarily due to the reinstatement during the third quarter of fiscal 2013 of the Federal Research and Development Tax Credit (“R&D Tax Credit”) that had expired December 31, 2011 and an increase in earnings of its wholly-owned foreign subsidiaries taxed at lower rates. The R&D Tax Credit expired once again effective December 31, 2013. Accordingly, the annual effective tax rate for fiscal 2014 includes the benefit of the R&D Tax Credit for six months.