Income taxes (Notes)

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2016

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

Income taxes

Income taxes

Intraperiod tax allocation rules require the Company to allocate the provision for income taxes between continuing operations and other categories of earnings, such as discontinued operations. In periods in which the Company has a year-to-date pre-tax loss from continuing operations and pre-tax income in other categories of earnings, such as discontinued operations, the Company must allocate the tax provision to the other categories of earnings, and then record a related tax benefit in continuing operations. During the three and six months ended June 30, 2016, the Company recognized net losses from both continuing and discontinued operations, and therefore no allocation of income tax was required. During the three months ended June 30, 2015, the Company recognized net income from discontinued operations, and, as a result, recorded income tax expense of $13,478,000, which is included in net income (loss) from discontinued operations in the condensed consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive income (loss). Accordingly, the Company recognized a related income tax benefit of $6,946,000 from continuing operations in the condensed consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive income (loss) for the three and six months ended June 30, 2015. The remaining $6,532,000 income tax benefit to continuing operations was recognized throughout the remainder of 2015.