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Income Taxes
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2015
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes

Note 12. Income Taxes

The Company computes the provision for income taxes by applying the estimated annual effective tax rate to income from operations and adjusting the provision for discrete tax items. US income taxes are not provided for certain undistributed earnings of foreign subsidiaries as such earnings are deemed to be permanently reinvested locally.

The provision for income taxes was $8.9 million and $18.0 million and the effective tax rate was 21.9% and 45.8% in the three months ended September 30, 2015 and 2014, respectively. For the nine months ended September 30, 2015 and 2014, the provision for income taxes was $21.8 million and $21.2 million and the effective tax rate was 22.7% and 48.4%, respectively.

In the three and nine months ended September 30, 2015, the Company recognized discrete tax benefits of $4.4 million and $11.5 million, respectively. These amounts were primarily related to a change in the Company’s election to claim foreign tax credits that were previously taken as deductions, government provided tax incentives, and changes in tax planning strategies. The effective tax rate for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2015 differed from the federal statutory rate of 35% primarily due to these discrete items and the benefits of financing transactions in the UK, which were partially offset by state income taxes. The Company’s effective tax rate for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2014 differed from the federal statutory rate primarily due to the PDRI impairment loss.

The Company made income tax payments of $4.1 million and $9.5 million in the three months ended September 30, 2015 and 2014 and $49.6 million and $29.0 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2015 and 2014, respectively. The Company had net prepaid income taxes of $20.9 million at September 30, 2015 included in Prepaid expenses and other current assets.