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Income Taxes
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2020
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes Income Taxes
The provision for income taxes for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 includes $71 of income tax benefits recorded on a discrete period basis of which $45 relates to previously recorded foreign withholding taxes and $26 relates to a previously recorded valuation allowance against a deferred tax asset. As more fully described below, both items were previously recorded in connection with the charge recorded by the Company in 2017 and revised in 2018 related to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Acts (the TCJA).

As part of the previously recorded charge for the TCJA, the Company had provided for foreign withholding taxes expected to be paid on the remittance of earnings from certain overseas subsidiaries no longer deemed indefinitely reinvested. As a result of a recent reorganization of the ownership structure of certain foreign subsidiaries, the Company determined that no withholding taxes are due on the remittance by certain subsidiaries of earnings previously deemed reinvested and, accordingly, in the first quarter of 2020, reversed $45 of previously recorded foreign withholding taxes.
Also as part of the previously recorded charge for the TCJA, the Company provided a valuation allowance against a deferred tax asset related to foreign tax credit carry-forwards that the Company did not expect to be able to use due to changes made by the TCJA. As a result of a new operating structure being implemented within one of the Company’s divisions, the Company believes the use of these foreign tax credit carry-forwards will not be limited in the future and, accordingly, in the first quarter of 2020, reversed the previously recorded valuation allowance of $26.