Income Taxes

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2022

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

INCOME TAXES

5.  INCOME TAXES

The total amount of unrecognized benefit that would affect the effective tax rate, if recognized, was less than $1 million at September 30, 2022. A total of less than $1 million of interest and penalties is included in the amount of the liability for uncertain tax positions at September 30, 2022. It is the Company’s policy to recognize interest and penalties related to unrecognized benefits in its condensed consolidated statements of (loss) income as income tax expense.

It is possible the amount of unrecognized tax benefit could change in the next 12 months as a result of a lapse of the statute of limitations and settlements with taxing authorities; however, the Company does not anticipate the change will have a material impact on the Company’s condensed consolidated results of operations or financial position.

The Company’s federal income tax return for the 2018 tax year remains under examination by the Internal Revenue Service. The Company believes the result of this examination will not be material to its consolidated results of operations or consolidated financial position. The Company has extended the federal statute of limitations through December 31, 2023 for the tax period ended December 31, 2018.

The Company’s provision for income taxes was $70 million and $10 million for the three months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively, and $291 million and $132 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively. The Company’s effective tax rates were 100.0% and 6.5% for the three months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively, and 1,212.5% and 47.5% for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively. The increase in the provision for income taxes for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022, compared to the same periods in 2021 was primarily due to an increase in non-deductible interest for 2022 compared to 2021, compounded by an adverse change in the IRC Section 163(j) limit for deductible interest expense beginning in 2022. The difference in the Company’s effective tax rate for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022, compared to the same periods in 2021 is due to the aforementioned increase in the provision for income taxes and the decline in income before taxes.

Cash paid for income taxes, net of refunds received, resulted in a net payment of approximately less than $1 million and $1 million during the three-month periods ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively, and $6 million and $3 million during the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively.