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Income Taxes
9 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2019
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes
INCOME TAXES

In general, the Company uses an estimated annual effective tax rate, which is based on expected annual income and statutory tax rates in the various jurisdictions in which the Company operates, to determine its quarterly provision for income taxes. In the first quarter of fiscal 2019, the Company used an estimated annual effective tax rate to calculate its provision for income taxes. For the quarters ended March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the Company calculated its effective tax rate on a discrete basis due to significant variations in the relationship between tax expense and projected pre-tax income. The Company’s effective tax rate may change from period-to-period based on recurring and non-recurring factors including the geographical mix of earnings, enacted tax legislation, state and local income taxes and tax audit settlements.

On December 22, 2017, the U.S. government enacted comprehensive tax legislation pursuant to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Tax Act”), which significantly revised the ongoing U.S. corporate income tax law by lowering the U.S. federal corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21%, implementing a territorial tax system, imposing a one-time tax on foreign unremitted earnings and setting limitations on deductibility of certain costs (e.g., interest expense and executive compensation), among other things.

Due to the complexities involved in accounting for the Tax Act, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Staff Accounting Bulletin (“SAB”) 118 required that the Company include in its financial statements a reasonable estimate of the impact of the Tax Act on earnings to the extent such reasonable estimate has been determined. Pursuant to SAB 118, the Company was allowed 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. As of December 31, 2018, the Company finalized its accounting for the income tax effects of the Tax Act and recorded an additional expense of $8,205 related to its transition tax liability. The net increase in the transition tax was due to the finalization of the Company’s earnings and profits study for our foreign subsidiaries. The adjustment of the Company’s provisional tax expense was recorded as a change in estimate in accordance with SAB No. 118. Despite the completion of the Company’s accounting for the Tax Act under SAB 118, many aspects of the law remain unclear, and we expect ongoing guidance to be issued at both the federal and state levels. There was no new guidance issued in the third quarter of fiscal 2019 that impacted the Company’s liability. The Company will continue to monitor and assess the impact of any new developments.

The Tax Act also includes a provision to tax global intangible low-taxed income (“GILTI”) of foreign subsidiaries. The FASB Staff Q&A Topic No. 5, Accounting for Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income, states that an entity can make an accounting policy election either to recognize deferred taxes for temporary differences that are expected to reverse as GILTI in future years or provide for the tax expense related to GILTI resulting from those items in the year the tax is incurred. We have elected to recognize the resulting tax on GILTI as a period expense in the period the tax is incurred. We have computed the impact on our effective tax rate on a discrete basis.

The effective income tax rate from continuing operations was expense of 23.2% and a benefit of 5.5% for the three months ended March 31, 2019 and March 31, 2018, respectively. The effective income tax rate from continuing operations was a benefit of 3.9% and 15.3% for the nine months ended March 31, 2019 and March 31, 2018, respectively. The effective income tax rate from continuing operations for the three and nine months ended March 31, 2019 was impacted by provisions in the Tax Act including GILTI, finalization of the transition tax liability, and limitations on the deductibility of executive compensation. The effective income tax rate was also impacted by the geographical mix of earnings and state taxes. The effective rate for the three and nine months ended March 31, 2018 was primarily impacted by the enactment of the Tax Act on December 22, 2017, specifically the revalue of net deferred tax liabilities to the enacted 21% tax rate, repealing the deduction for domestic production activities, inclusion of the transition tax liability estimate and deductibility of executive officers’ compensation. The effective income tax rate from continuing operations for the three and nine months ended March 31, 2018 was also favorably impacted by the geographical mix of earnings, as well as a $3,754 benefit relating to the release of the Company’s domestic uncertain tax position as a result of the expiration of the statute of limitations.

The income tax benefit from discontinued operations was $21,415 and $49,035 for the three and nine months ended March 31, 2019, while the income tax expense from discontinued operations was $10,431 and $12,738 for the three and nine months ended March 31, 2018. The benefit for income taxes for the nine months ended March 31, 2019 includes the reversal of the $12,250 deferred tax liability previously recorded related to Hain Pure Protein being classified as held for sale. In addition, the three and nine month tax benefit is impacted by the tax effect of current period book losses including the loss on the sale of Plainville Farms assets in the third quarter of fiscal 2019 as well as the deferred tax benefit arising from asset impairment charges.