Income Tax Provision

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2024

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

Income Tax Provision

NOTE 5 – Income Tax Provision

The table below sets forth information related to our income tax expense:

	Three Months Ended
	March 31,
	2024			2023
Domestic pre-tax income	$	(1,574	)	$	54,724
Foreign pre-tax income	$	20,380		$	33,869
Income tax provision	$	3,537		$	16,616
Effective tax rate		18.8	%		18.8	%
Impact of tax holidays on tax expense	$	(93	)	$	(74	)
Earnings per share impact of tax holidays:
Basic	$	-		$	-
Diluted	$	-		$	-

The effective tax rate for the three months ended March 31, 2024 is consistent when compared to the three months ended March 31, 2023, primarily due to the impact of the geographical mix of pre-tax income and loss across tax jurisdictions relative to the Company’s consolidated pre-tax income on the estimated annual effective income tax rate.

Our undistributed foreign earnings continue to be indefinitely reinvested in foreign operations, with limited exceptions related to certain earnings of European and Asian subsidiaries. Any future distributions of foreign earnings will not be subject to additional U.S. income tax but may be subject to non-U.S. withholding taxes.

We file income tax returns in the U.S. federal jurisdiction and in various state and foreign jurisdictions. We are no longer subject to U.S. federal income tax examinations by tax authorities for tax years before 2012. We are no longer subject to China income tax examinations by tax authorities for tax years before 2013. With respect to state and local jurisdictions and countries outside of the U.S. (other than China), with limited exceptions, the Company is no longer subject to income tax audits for years before 2017. Although the outcome of tax audits is always uncertain, the Company believes that adequate amounts of tax, interest, and penalties, if any, have been provided for in the Company’s reserve for any adjustments that may result from currently pending tax audits. The Company recognizes accrued interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits in interest expense. As of March 31, 2024, the gross amount of unrecognized tax benefits was approximately $50.5 million.

Several jurisdictions in which we operate have either enacted, or announced plans to enact, legislation consistent with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Global Anti-Base Erosion Model Rules (“Pillar Two”) which introduced a global minimum effective tax rate of 15% applied on a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction basis. We have analyzed enacted legislation and do not anticipate that it will have a material impact on our effective tax rate for 2024; however, we continue to monitor future tax legislative changes in the jurisdictions in which we operate in order to evaluate the impacts on the consolidated financial statements.

It is reasonably possible that the amount of the unrecognized benefit with respect to certain of the Company’s unrecognized tax positions will significantly increase or decrease within the next 12 months. At this time, an estimate of the range of the reasonably possible outcomes cannot be made.