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Income Taxes
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2018
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
INCOME TAXES
INCOME TAXES
The Company's reported tax rate was 22.4% and 19.9% during the three months ended June 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively and 21.6% and 19.4% during the six months ended June 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively. The provision for taxes is based upon using the Company's projected annual effective tax rate of 22.0% before non-recurring discrete tax items for the three and six months periods ended June 30, 2018. The difference between the Company's projected annual effective tax rate of 22.0% and the reported tax rate is related to the timing of excess tax benefits associated with stock option exercises.
On December 22, 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the "Act") significantly revised U.S. corporate income tax law. The Act includes, among other things, a reduction in the U.S. federal corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21% effective for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017, and the implementation of a modified territorial tax system that includes a one-time transition tax on deemed repatriated earnings of foreign subsidiaries ("Transition Tax") that is payable over a period of up to eight years.
The Company's accounting for the Act is based upon reasonable estimates, however, the estimates may change upon the finalization of the Act's implementation and additional interpretive guidance from regulatory authorities. Among other things, the Company needs to complete its analysis of historical foreign earnings and related taxes paid and its analysis of foreign cash equivalents. In addition, the Company needs to complete its analysis of deemed repatriation of deferred foreign income and related.