Note 8.

Income Taxes

The Company’s year-to-date effective income tax rate at December 31, 2017 and 2016 was 45.9% and 27.8%, respectively. The variations between the Company’s effective tax rate and the U.S. statutory rate of 28% for our fiscal year ending June 30, 2018 were primarily due to the impact of the U.S. enacted tax legislation and earnings generated from the Company’s foreign operations, which are subject to income taxes at lower statutory rates.

U.S. GAAP prescribes the accounting for uncertainty in income taxes recognized in an enterprise’s financial statements which includes a recognition threshold and measurement attribute for the financial statement recognition and measurement of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. As of December 31, 2017 and June 30, 2017, the Company’s gross unrecognized income tax benefit was $7.7 million and $7.6 million, respectively. The Company has classified the uncertain tax positions as noncurrent income tax liabilities, as the amounts are not expected to be paid within one year. If recognized, $5.5 million of the gross unrecognized tax benefits at December 31, 2017 would impact the effective tax rate. The Company recognizes interest and penalties related to uncertain tax positions in the income tax provision on the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Earnings. The amount of accrued interest and penalties included in the gross unrecognized income tax benefit was $0.5 million and $0.3 million, at December 31, 2017 and June 30, 2017, respectively. Fiscal years 2014 to 2018 remain open to examination by the United States Internal Revenue Service, fiscal years 2012 to 2018 remain open to examination by certain state jurisdictions, and fiscal years 2006 to 2018 remain open to examination by certain foreign taxing jurisdictions. The Company’s income tax returns are not currently under examination. The Company believes its income tax reserves for these tax matters are adequate.

U.S. Tax Reform

On December 22, 2017, the U.S. government enacted comprehensive tax legislation commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Tax Act”). The Tax Act significantly revises the future ongoing U.S. corporate income tax by, among other things, lowering U.S. corporate income tax rates and implementing a territorial tax system. As the Company has a June 30 fiscal year-end, the lower corporate income tax rate will be phased in, resulting in a U.S. statutory federal rate of approximately 28% for the Company’s fiscal year ending June 30, 2018, and 21% for subsequent fiscal years. As part of the transition to the new territorial tax system, the Tax Act imposes a one-time repatriation tax on total post-1986 earnings and profits (“E&P”) of foreign subsidiaries that were previously deferred from U.S. income taxes.

At December 31, 2017, the Company has not finalized its accounting for the tax effects of the Tax Act; however, as described below, management has made a reasonable estimate of the effects on existing deferred tax balances and has recorded an estimated amount for its one-time repatriation tax, resulting in an increase in income tax expense. The Company has yet to complete its calculation of the total post-1986 foreign E&P. Further, the one-time repatriation tax is based in part on the amount of those earnings held in cash and other specified assets and could be impacted by the balance of those assets at June 30, 2018, which is not yet known. This amount may change when the Company finalizes the calculation of post-1986 foreign E&P previously deferred from U.S. taxation and the amounts held in cash or other specified assets as of June 30, 2018 are known.

The impact of the repatriation tax is expected to be offset by available net operating loss and credit carryforwards which currently have a valuation allowance. Thus the tax expense reported is reduced by the release of the valuation allowance on U.S. deferred tax assets. The reduction of the U.S. corporate tax rate caused the Company to adjust the U.S. deferred tax assets and liabilities to the lower U.S. statutory federal rate of 21%. However, the Company will continue to analyze certain aspects of the Tax Act which could affect the measurement of these balances or give rise to new deferred tax amounts. In addition, the Company has recorded withholding taxes on planned repatriation due to the change to a territorial tax system. The transitional impacts described above resulted in a cumulative provisional net charge of $15.8 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2017.

The changes included in the Tax Act are broad and complex. The final transition impacts of the Tax Act may differ from the estimates recorded during the quarter ended December 31, 2017, possibly materially, due to, among other things, changes in interpretations of the Tax Act, any legislative action to address questions that arise because of the Tax Act, any changes in accounting standards for income taxes or related interpretations in response to the Tax Act, or any updates or changes to estimates the Company has utilized to calculate the transition impacts, including impacts from changes to current year earnings estimates and foreign exchange rates of foreign subsidiaries. The Securities Exchange Commission has issued rules that allow for a measurement period of up to one year after the enactment date of the Tax Act to finalize the recording of the related tax impacts. The Company currently anticipates finalizing and recording any resulting adjustments by the end of the quarter ending December 31, 2018.