Income Taxes - (Notes)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2016

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

Income Taxes

INCOME TAXES

For the three months ended September 30, 2016, total income tax expense was $70 million on a loss before income taxes of $360 million, resulting in a negative effective tax rate of 19.4%. The negative effective tax rate is due primarily to the geographical mix of earnings and losses such that taxes in certain jurisdictions, including withholding and deemed profit taxes, exceed the tax benefit from the losses in other jurisdictions due to valuation allowances provided in most loss jurisdictions.

In the third quarter of 2016, we filed a carryback claim for the 2015 U.S. Net Operating Loss ("NOL") to prior tax years. As a result, a $370 million current income tax receivable is reflected in other current assets in the balance sheet as of September 30, 2016.