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Income Taxes
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2018
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes
Income Taxes
The effective tax rate on net income from continuing operations was 15.9% for the three months ended March 31, 2018. The effective tax rate on net income from continuing operations was 0.1% for the three months ended March 31, 2017. For the three months ended March 31, 2018, the tax rate was primarily driven by the geographical distribution of income, changes to tax laws as a result of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“U.S. Tax Reform”), and certain discrete items including the impact of share-based payments and the recognition of previously unrecognized tax benefits related to the statute of limitations expiration following an audit. For the three months ended March 31, 2017, the tax rate was primarily driven by the geographical distribution of income, including the estimated impact of the Restructuring Program and accelerated amortization of tradenames, and the impact of share-based payments.
On December 22, 2017, U.S. Tax Reform was enacted which significantly changed U.S. corporate income tax laws. Also on December 22, 2017, the SEC staff issued Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 118 (“SAB 118”) to address the application of U.S. GAAP in situations when a registrant did not have the necessary information available, prepared, or analyzed in reasonable detail to complete the accounting for certain income tax effects of U.S. Tax Reform in the period of enactment. SAB 118 allowed registrants to record provisional amounts during a one year measurement period.

In the fourth quarter of 2017, a net provisional charge of $345 million was recorded which included the transition tax, the re-measurement of existing deferred tax balances, as well as local country income taxes, state income taxes and withholding taxes expected to be due upon repatriation of the earnings subject to the transition tax. In addition, the Company was unable to estimate the allocation between continuing and discontinued operations of the tax benefit from foreign tax credits generated in 2017 and related valuation allowance release. In the first quarter of 2018, the Company continued to analyze the impacts of U.S. Tax Reform and did not record any significant adjustments to its provisional estimates. The Company will finalize the provisional estimates by the end of 2018 after completing its reviews, analyzing guidance issued during the measurement period, and evaluating the local tax rules where the Company has pools of undistributed earnings within our complex legal entity structure.