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Income Taxes
9 Months Ended
Feb. 28, 2018
Income Taxes  
Income Taxes

 

Note 5 — Income Taxes

 

On December 22, 2017, the Tax Reform Act was enacted which significantly revised the U.S. corporate income tax system.  The Tax Reform Act, among other things, reduced the current corporate federal income tax rate to 21% from 35%, changed bonus depreciation regulations and limited deductions for executive compensation.  The income tax rate reduction in the Tax Reform Act is effective January 1, 2018 which results in a blended federal statutory tax rate for the Company of 29.2% in fiscal 2018.  Our income tax expense for the three-month period ended February 28, 2018 included a benefit of $1.8 million related to the impact of our revised, lower estimated fiscal 2018 tax rate applied to our pre-tax income for the six-month period ended November 30, 2017 which was previously expected to be taxed at 35%.

 

We re-measured our deferred tax assets and liabilities based on the tax rate at which they are expected to reverse in the future, which is either at a federal rate of 29.2% for reversals in fiscal 2018 or 21% for reversals in fiscal 2019 and subsequent years.  We recognized an income tax benefit of $13.0 million in the three-month period ended February 28, 2018 for the re-measurement impact on a provisional basis.

 

On December 22, 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 118, which allows the use of a measurement period, similar to that used in business combinations, to account for the impacts of the Tax Reform Act.  We have accounted for the impacts of the Tax Reform Act to the extent a reasonable estimate could be made, however, we will continue to refine our estimates on the timing of the deferred tax reversals throughout the measurement period as additional information becomes available or until the accounting is complete.