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Income Taxes
6 Months Ended
Jan. 01, 2016
Income Taxes [Abstract]  
Income Taxes

Note M — Income Taxes

 

In the second quarter of fiscal 2016, we recorded income tax expense of $46 million coupled with an $89 million loss from continuing operations before income taxes, compared with our effective tax rate (income taxes as a percentage of income (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes) of 26.5 percent in the second quarter of fiscal 2015. In the second quarter of fiscal 2016, our effective tax rate was negatively impacted by the non-deductibility for tax purposes of portions of the impairment charge described in Note N Impairment of Goodwill and Other Assets in these Notes. This negative impact was partially offset by the effect of legislation enacted in the second quarter of fiscal 2016 that restored the U.S. Federal income tax credit for qualifying research and development (“R&D”) expenses for calendar year 2015 and made the credit permanent for the periods following December 31, 2015. This resulted in a benefit of approximately $12 million in calculating our effective tax rate in the second quarter of fiscal 2016. Approximately 40 percent of this benefit related to R&D expenses in the second half of fiscal 2015 and the remainder related to R&D expenses in fiscal 2016. Additionally, in the second quarter of fiscal 2016, our effective tax rate benefited from the settlement of a state tax issue for an amount lower than the previously recorded estimate and several differences between GAAP and tax accounting for investments. In the second quarter of fiscal 2015, legislation was enacted that restored the U.S. Federal income tax credit for qualifying R&D expenses for calendar year 2014. This resulted in a benefit of approximately $7 million (approximately 3.7 percent of income from continuing operations before income taxes) in calculating our effective tax rate in the second quarter of fiscal 2015. Approximately half of this benefit related to R&D expenses in the second half of fiscal 2014 and the remainder related to R&D expenses in the first half of fiscal 2015. Additionally, in the second quarter of fiscal 2015, our effective tax rate benefited by approximately $8 million (approximately 4.2 percent of income from continuing operations before income taxes) due to finalizing issues with Canadian and U.S. tax authorities for amounts lower than previously recorded estimates.

 

Our effective tax rate was 89.8 percent in the first two quarters of fiscal 2016 compared with 27.7 percent in the first two quarters of fiscal 2015. In the first two quarters of fiscal 2016, our effective tax rate was impacted as described above by the discrete items noted above regarding the second quarter of fiscal 2016 and by a benefit recorded in the first quarter of fiscal 2016 from the settlement of several items for amounts lower than previously recorded estimates. In the first two quarters of fiscal 2015, our effective tax rate benefited from the discrete items noted above regarding the second quarter of fiscal 2015, as well as from the recognition, in the first quarter of fiscal 2015, of foreign tax credits resulting from a dividend paid by a foreign subsidiary during fiscal 2013 that exceeded the U.S. tax liability in respect of the dividend. These discrete items resulted in an aggregate benefit of approximately $23 million (approximately 6 percent of income from continuing operations before income taxes) in calculating our effective tax rate in the first two quarters of fiscal 2015.