INCOME TAXES

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2022

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

INCOME TAXES

NOTE 12. INCOME TAXES

Effective income tax rate

	Three Months Ended June 30,				Six Months Ended June 30,
(Dollars in thousands)	2022		2021		2022			2021
Provision for (benefit from) income taxes	$	186,174	$	(11,916)	$	178,491		$	(29,534)
Effective income tax rate (benefit rate)					165		%	(2,591)		%

The change in the effective income tax rate (benefit rate) in the six months ended June 30, 2022 was primarily due to the recognition of a $191.9 million valuation allowance on the Company’s deferred tax assets.

The Company recognizes deferred tax assets to the extent that it believes that these assets are more likely than not to be realized. Future realization of deferred tax assets ultimately depends on sufficient taxable income within the available carryback or carryforward periods. The Company’s deferred tax valuation allowance requires significant judgment and uncertainties, including assumptions about future taxable income based on historical and projected information. On a quarterly basis, the Company reassess the need for a valuation allowance on its existing net deferred tax assets by tax-paying jurisdiction, weighing positive and negative evidence to assess its recoverability. In making such a determination, the Company considers all available and objectively verifiable negative and positive evidence, including future reversals of existing taxable temporary differences, committed contractual backlog (“Backlog”), projected future taxable income inclusive of the impact of enacted legislation, tax-planning strategies, and results of recent operations. The weight given to the potential effect of negative and positive evidence is commensurate with the extent to which it can be objectively verified.

As of June 30, 2022, the Company’s Backlog balance was not sufficient to recover our net deferred tax assets. The Backlog balance and other unsettled circumstances, impacting the Company’s operations, reduced the Backlog’s weight as objectively verifiable positive evidence to generate sufficient taxable income to recover its net deferred tax assets. These unsettled circumstances include growing and extended geopolitical turmoil, increasing inflation, and an uncertain global economic outlook.

As of June 30, 2022 the combination of the above factors caused the Company to conclude there is no longer sufficient objectively verifiable positive evidence to support that it is more likely than not the Company will generate sufficient future taxable income to recover the Company’s net deferred tax assets. Accordingly, the Company recorded a valuation allowance of $191.9 million in income tax expense during the three months ended June 30, 2022.