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Income Taxes
6 Months Ended
Jul. 01, 2018
Income Taxes  
Income Taxes

4. Income Taxes 

 

The 2017 Tax Act was enacted on December 22, 2017 and has resulted in significant changes to the U.S. corporate income tax system. These changes include (1) lowering the U.S. corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21%, (2) implementing a base erosion and anti-abuse tax, (3) generally eliminating U.S. federal income taxes on dividends from foreign subsidiaries, (4) a new provision designed to tax global intangible low-taxed income (“GILTI”) of foreign subsidiaries, which allows for the possibility of utilizing foreign tax credits to offset the tax liability (subject to limitations), (5) a lower effective U.S. tax rate on certain revenues from sources outside the U.S., and (6) a one-time mandatory deemed repatriation tax (“Toll Tax”) on foreign subsidiaries’ previously untaxed accumulated foreign earnings.

 

In the period ended December 31, 2017, the Company recorded a provisional tax expense of $25.1 million related to the 2017 Tax Act, which included a $23.3 million charge for the Toll Tax. For the six months ended July 1, 2018, the Company has not recorded any additional provisional expense or benefit related to the 2017 Tax Act.

 

In December 2017, the SEC staff issued Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 118, Income Tax Accounting Implications of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (SAB 118), which allows companies to record provisional amounts during a measurement period not to extend beyond one year of the enactment date. These provisional amounts may be impacted by further analysis and future clarification and guidance regarding available tax accounting methods and elections, earnings and profits computations, foreign tax credit computations, and state tax conformity to federal tax changes. When the Company refines these provisional amounts, any adjustments will be recorded in the period completed. The final analysis may be different from the Company’s current provisional amounts, which could materially affect the Company’s tax obligations and effective tax rate in the period or periods in which the adjustments are made.

 

As of July 1, 2018, the amounts recorded for the 2017 Tax Act remain provisional for the Toll Tax, the remeasurement of deferred taxes, and gross foreign tax credit carryforwards and related valuation allowances to offset foreign tax credit carryforwards. Given the complexity of the 2017 Tax Act, the Company continues to gather the detailed information required to complete the accounting and evaluate the tax impact. Further, the Company has not yet determined its policy election with respect to whether to record deferred taxes for basis differences expected to reverse as a result of the GILTI provisions in future periods or use the period cost method.

 

Due to the complexity of the new GILTI tax rules, the Company has included an estimate of the current GILTI impact in the Company’s tax provision for 2018. The Company’s GILTI estimate may be revised in future periods as the Company obtains additional data, and as the IRS issues new guidance on implementing the 2017 Tax Act.