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Income Taxes
6 Months Ended
Mar. 03, 2018
Income Taxes [Abstract]  
Income Taxes

Note 8. Income Taxes



 On December 22, 2017, the Tax Reform Act was enacted. The Tax Reform Act made significant changes to U.S. federal income tax laws including permanently lowering the U.S. corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21% effective January 1, 2018. As the Company has a fiscal August year-end, the lower corporate income tax rate will be phased in, resulting in a U.S. statutory rate of 25.7% for the fiscal year ending September 1, 2018. The Company’s statutory federal tax rate will be 21.0% for fiscal years 2019 and beyond. U.S. GAAP requires that the impact of tax legislation be recognized in the period in which the law was enacted.



In December 2017, the SEC issued Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 118, which allows a company to report provisional numbers related to the Tax Reform Act and adjust those amounts during a measurement period not to extend beyond one year. For the thirteen and  twenty-six-week periods ended March 3, 2018, the Company recorded a one-time provisional net tax benefit of $41,199 due to the revaluation of its net deferred tax liabilities primarily related to the lower federal corporate tax rate, partially offset by the lower federal benefit for state taxes and the change from a worldwide tax system to a territorial tax system. In addition, applying the reduced effective tax rate of 29.3%, including state taxes and which excludes discrete items, to our first and second fiscal quarter earnings resulted in a $16,929 reduction to tax expense.



The amounts recorded are provisional and are subject to change due to further interpretations of the Tax Reform Act, legislative action to address questions that arise because of the Tax Reform Act, and/or any updates or changes to estimates the Company has utilized to calculate the impacts, such as return to accrual adjustments and/or changes to current year earnings estimates and the Company’s ongoing analysis of the Tax Reform Act.

During the twenty-six-week period ended March 3, 2018, there were no material changes in unrecognized tax benefits.