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Income Taxes
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2014
Income Taxes

Note 14.  Income Taxes

See Note 1, Basis of Presentation – Revision of Financial Statements, for information related to the revision of income taxes in 2013.

Based on current tax laws, our estimated effective tax rate for 2014 is 20.1%, reflecting favorable impacts from the mix of pre-tax income in various non-U.S. tax jurisdictions, partially offset by the impact of the nondeductible loss due to the remeasurement of our Venezuelan net monetary assets. Our first quarter effective tax rate of (22.0)% was due to net tax benefits from discrete one-time events and lower pre-tax income due to the tender-related loss on debt extinguishment and the remeasurement of the Venezuela net monetary assets. Of the discrete net tax benefits of $52 million in the quarter, $51 million related to favorable tax audit settlements and expirations of statutes of limitations in several jurisdictions.

As of the first quarter of 2013, our estimated effective tax rate for 2013 was 20.0%, which reflected favorable impacts from the mix of pre-tax income in various non-U.S. tax jurisdictions. Our 2013 first quarter effective tax rate of 2.3% was favorably impacted by net tax benefits from discrete one-time events. Of the discrete net tax benefits of $94 million in the quarter, $78 million related to favorable tax audit settlements and expirations of the statutes of limitations in several jurisdictions.