Income Taxes

3 Months Ended

Dec. 29, 2019

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

Income Taxes

Income Taxes

The effective tax rates for the first quarters of fiscal 2020 and 2019 were 21.1% and 20.4%, respectively. The tax rates for fiscal 2020 and 2019 reflect the impact of the comprehensive tax legislation enacted by the U.S. government on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ("TCJA"). The TCJA significantly revised the U.S. corporate income tax regime by, among other things, lowering the U.S. corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% effective January 1, 2018, while also repealing the deduction for domestic production activities, limiting the deductibility of certain executive compensation, and implementing a modified territorial tax system with the introduction of the Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income tax rules. The TCJA also imposed a one-time transition tax on deemed repatriation of historical earnings of foreign subsidiaries.

U.S. GAAP requires that the impact of tax legislation be recognized in the period in which the tax law was enacted. We finalized the analysis of our deferred tax liabilities for the TCJA's lower tax rates in the first quarter of fiscal 2019 and recorded a deferred tax benefit of $2.6 million. Excluding the deferred tax benefit from the TCJA, our effective tax rate in the first quarter of fiscal 2019 was 25.3%.

As of December 29, 2019 and September 29, 2019, the liability for income taxes associated with uncertain tax positions was $9.6 million and $9.2 million, respectively. These uncertain tax positions substantially relate to ongoing examinations, which are reasonably likely to be resolved within the next 12 months.