Income Taxes (Notes)

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2015

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

Income Taxes

Income Taxes

A provision for income taxes has been recorded at an effective tax rate of 32.6% for the six months endedJune 30, 2015 compared to the 37.5% effective tax rate recorded in the same period a year ago due to tax legislation changes. In New York State, corporate tax reform enacted in March 2014 changed the tax rate of a manufacturing company such as CONMED to essentially 0%. While this will be positive for the future, previously recorded New York State deferred tax assets of $2.3 million that would have been used to offset taxes otherwise payable, no longer had value due to a zero percent tax rate. Accordingly, we had written off these New York State tax assets as a non-cash charge to income tax expense in the six months endedJune 30, 2014.