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9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2017

PacifiCorp [Member]

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Related Party Transactions

Berkshire Hathaway includes BHE and its subsidiaries in its United States federal income tax return. Consistent with established regulatory practice, PacifiCorp's provision for income taxes has been computed on a stand-alone basis, and substantially all of its currently payable or receivable income taxes are remitted to or received from BHE. For the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, PacifiCorp made net cash payments for federal and state income taxes to BHE totaling $205 million and $61 million, respectively.