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Income Taxes
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 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. During 2014, as part of our ongoing remediation efforts related to the material weakness in internal controls over the accounting for income taxes, we recorded out-of-period adjustments that had an immaterial impact on the provision for income taxes of $20 million for the three months and $15 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2014. The out-of-period adjustments were not material to the consolidated financial statements for any prior period.

Based on current tax laws, our estimated annual effective tax rate for 2014 is 21.2%, reflecting favorable impacts from the mix of pre-tax income in various non-U.S. tax jurisdictions, partially offset by the remeasurement of our Venezuelan net monetary assets. Our 2014 third quarter effective tax rate of 16.5% was favorably impacted by net tax benefits from $65 million of discrete one-time events. The discrete net tax benefits primarily related to $109 million from favorable tax audit settlements and expirations of statutes of limitations in several jurisdictions, partially offset by $20 million of out-of-period adjustments. Our effective tax rate for the nine months ended September 30, 2014 of 12.5% was due to net tax benefits from $169 million of discrete one-time events. The discrete net tax benefits primarily related to favorable tax audit settlements and expirations of statutes of limitations in several jurisdictions.

As of the third quarter of 2013, our estimated annual effective tax rate for 2013 was 20.0%, reflecting favorable impacts from the mix of pre-tax income in various non-U.S. tax jurisdictions. Our 2013 third quarter effective tax rate of 2.5% was favorably impacted by the non-taxable portion of the Cadbury acquisition-related indemnity resolution of $325 million and net tax benefits from $109 million of discrete one-time events. These discrete items primarily resulted from $88 million related to the revaluation of U.K. deferred tax assets and liabilities resulting from tax legislation enacted during the third quarter of 2013 and $45 million of net favorable tax audit settlements and expirations of statutes of limitations in several jurisdictions. Our effective tax rate for the nine months ended September 30, 2013 of 3.0% was favorably impacted by the non-taxable portion of the Cadbury acquisition-related indemnity resolution of $325 million and net tax benefits from $295 million of discrete one-time events. These discrete items primarily resulted from $177 million of net favorable tax audit settlements and expirations of statutes of limitations in several jurisdictions, $88 million related to the revaluation of U.K. deferred tax assets and liabilities resulting from tax legislation enacted during the third quarter of 2013 and $39 million associated with a business divestiture.