Income Taxes	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2017
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]
Income Taxes	Income Taxes Effective Income Tax Rate and Income Tax Provision For interim tax reporting, we estimate one single effective tax rate for tax jurisdictions not subject to a valuation allowance, which is applied to the year-to-date ordinary income/(loss). Tax effects of significant unusual or infrequently occurring items are excluded from the estimated annual effective tax rate calculation and recognized in the interim period in which they occur. Our effective income tax rate for the three months ended September 30, 2017 was 41.2% and for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 was 86.2%. Our year to date effective income tax rate is higher than our calculated interim rate primarily as a result of planned distributions of earnings which had previously been determined to be indefinitely reinvested in operations outside the United States. Our change in assertion for these investments is related to distributions in anticipation of the sale of Diversey. Our effective income tax rate for the three months ended September 30, 2016 was 45.9% and for the nine months ended September 30, 2016 was 46.9%. The effective tax rate for the nine months ended September 30, 2016 was higher than our calculated interim rate because of an increase in valuation allowance against foreign tax credits which the Company expected to expire before utilization.

Income Taxes

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2017

Effective Income Tax Rate and Income Tax Provision

For interim tax reporting, we estimate one single effective tax rate for tax jurisdictions not subject to a valuation allowance, which is applied to the year-to-date ordinary income/(loss). Tax effects of significant unusual or infrequently occurring items are excluded from the estimated annual effective tax rate calculation and recognized in the interim period in which they occur.

Our effective income tax rate for the three months ended September 30, 2017 was 41.2% and for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 was 86.2%. Our year to date effective income tax rate is higher than our calculated interim rate primarily as a result of planned distributions of earnings which had previously been determined to be indefinitely reinvested in operations outside the United States. Our change in assertion for these investments is related to distributions in anticipation of the sale of Diversey.

Our effective income tax rate for the three months ended September 30, 2016 was 45.9% and for the nine months ended September 30, 2016 was 46.9%. The effective tax rate for the nine months ended September 30, 2016 was higher than our calculated interim rate because of an increase in valuation allowance against foreign tax credits which the Company expected to expire before utilization.