Income Taxes

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2022

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

Income Taxes

Income Taxes

The tax provision for interim periods is determined using the estimated annual effective consolidated tax rate, based on the current estimate of full-year earnings before taxes, adjusted for the impact of discrete quarterly items.

The provision for income taxes was $20.4 million and $12.0 million for the three months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively, and the effective tax rate was 15.0% and 6.6%, respectively. The provision for income taxes was $85.8 million and $73.0 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively, and the effective tax rate was 15.6% and 12.9%, respectively.

The increase in effective tax rate for the three months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021 is the result of the Company's prepayment of future royalties from one of its subsidiaries in 2021, which resulted in a $20.4 million tax benefit that was not repeated in 2022, as well as a larger tax benefit related to stock-based compensation in 2021 when compared to 2022, offset by the tax benefit of $20.0 million recorded related to the termination of the U.S. pension plan recorded in 2022, as mentioned in Note 14, Benefit Plans,. The company did not elect to reclassify to retained earnings the stranded tax effects on items within AOCI related to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, and therefore included within the $20.0 million benefit is a deferred tax benefit of $8.0 million. This is due to the reversal of stranded tax effects in AOCI for the historic accrual of deferred tax on pension AOCI at historic federal and state income tax rates while the related deferred tax asset was adjusted to the latest enacted income tax rates through net income.

The increase in effective tax rate for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021 is the result of the Company's prepayment of future royalties from one of its subsidiaries in 2021, which resulted in a $20.4 million tax benefit that was not repeated in 2022, as well as a larger tax benefit related to stock-based compensation in 2021 when compared to 2022, offset by the tax benefit of $20.3 million recorded related to the termination of the U.S. pension plan recorded in 2022, as mentioned in Note 14, Benefit Plans,. The company did not elect to reclassify to retained earnings the stranded tax effects on items within AOCI related to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, and therefore included within the $20.3 million benefit is a deferred tax benefit of $8.0 million. This is due to the reversal of stranded tax effects in AOCI for the historic accrual of deferred tax on pension AOCI at historic federal and state income tax rates while the related deferred tax asset was adjusted to the latest enacted income tax rates through net income.