Income Taxes

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2019

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

Income Taxes

Income Taxes

Tax Reform

On December 22, 2017, the U.S. enacted the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ("TCJA") that instituted fundamental changes to the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended ("the Code").

During the three months ended September 30, 2018, we revised our initial provisional amount recorded at December 31, 2017 for the transitional tax on the deemed repatriation of the accumulated earnings and profits of our international subsidiaries and the impact of the federal tax rate change on the value of our deferred tax assets and liabilities. The transition tax liability on the deemed repatriation decreased $4.2 million, primarily as a result of additional analysis performed over our historical foreign earnings and foreign source income which provided increased ability to credit foreign taxes associated with the deemed repatriation. In addition, the impact of the rate change on deferred increased by $1.2 million due to adjustments resulting from the filing of our 2017 federal income tax return. The net benefit to income taxes reduced the Company's effective income tax rate for the third quarter of 2018 to 11.8%, as well as reducing the effective income tax rate for the first nine months of 2018 to 21.0%.