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Income Taxes
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2014
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes
INCOME TAXES
The Company recognized income tax expense of $4.2 million and $0.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively. The Company’s effective tax rate was 35.6% and (22.2)% for the three months ended March 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively.
A valuation allowance is required to be established or maintained when, based on currently available information and other factors, it is more likely than not that all or a portion of a deferred tax asset will not be realized. The guidance on accounting for income taxes provides important factors in determining whether a deferred tax asset will be realized, including whether there has been sufficient taxable income in recent years and whether sufficient income can reasonably be expected in future years in order to utilize the deferred tax asset.
In the three months ended March 31, 2013, the Company maintained a valuation allowance against its domestic deferred tax assets and adjusted its valuation allowance as deferred tax assets increased or decreased, resulting in effectively no tax expense or benefit being recorded for domestic operations. As a result, the income tax expense in the three months ended March 31, 2013 primarily related to tax expense at the Company's non-U.S. operations that were not in a cumulative loss position.
In the second quarter of 2013, the Company determined that the valuation allowance on U.S. deferred tax assets could be released. The qualitative and quantitative analysis of current and expected domestic earnings, industry and market trends, tax planning strategies, and general business risks resulted in a more likely than not conclusion of being able to realize a significant portion of our U.S. deferred tax assets.
As the Company no longer maintains a valuation allowance against most domestic tax assets, tax expense has been recognized on domestic earnings, as well as non-U.S. earnings, in the three months ended March 31, 2014.
We continue to maintain a valuation allowance on certain state and foreign (principally Spain) deferred tax assets that we believe, on a more likely than not basis, will not be realized.