Income Tax Matters

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2015

The (benefit from) provision for incomes taxes, for each period presented, consisted of the following (in millions of dollars):



	Quarter Ended
	March 31,
	2015			2014
Domestic	$	(175.8	)	$	9.1
Foreign	—			0.3
Total	$	(175.8	)	$	9.4

The income tax (benefit) provision for the quarters ended March 31, 2015 and March 31, 2014 was $(175.8) million and $9.4 million, reflecting an effective tax rate of 37.6% and 37.4%, respectively. There was no material difference between the effective tax rate and the projected blended statutory tax rate for the quarters ended March 31, 2015 and March 31, 2014.

The $175.8 million income tax benefit for the quarter ended March 31, 2015 included a $184.4 million tax benefit that was recorded as a result of removing the Union VEBA net assets and related deferred tax liabilities from our consolidated financial statements.

See Note 5 of Notes to Interim Financial Statements included in this Report for disclosure regarding employee benefits.

The audit settlement and advance pricing agreement in 2013 with Canada resulted in a cash tax benefit of $10.7 million in 2013, which represented amounts previously paid against Canadian accrued taxes. As of March 31, 2015, the Company had received $8.3 million, with the remaining $2.4 million expected to be received within the next 12 months.

Our gross unrecognized benefits relating to uncertain tax positions were $2.1 million and $2.2 million at March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014, respectively, of which, $1.0 million and $1.1 million would go through our income tax provision and thus impact the effective tax rate at March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014, respectively, if the gross unrecognized tax benefits were to be recognized.

The Company does not expect its gross unrecognized tax benefits to significantly change within the next 12 months.

See Note 5 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2014 for additional information regarding income taxes.

- Definition

The entire disclosure for income taxes. Disclosures may include net deferred tax liability or asset recognized in an enterprise's statement of financial position, net change during the year in the total valuation allowance, approximate tax effect of each type of temporary difference and carryforward that gives rise to a significant portion of deferred tax liabilities and deferred tax assets, utilization of a tax carryback, and tax uncertainties information.

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