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Income Taxes
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2019
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes Income Taxes

Income tax expense is provided on an interim basis based upon our estimate of the annual effective income tax rate, adjusted each quarter for discrete items. For the three months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, our effective tax rate was 21.2% and 23.0%, respectively, and for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, our effective tax rate was 19.9% and 21.7%, respectively. Impacting our effective tax rate in the nine months ended September 30, 2019, was the settlement of an uncertain tax position. An income tax benefit of $4.1 million was recorded in June 2019, including $1.0 million of related interest expense, which reduced our effective tax rate by 1.3% in the nine months ended September 30, 2019.