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INCOME TAXES | INCOME TAXES Income/(loss) before income taxes consisted of:
The income tax provision/(benefit) from continuing operations consisted of the following:
A reconciliation of the tax provision for continuing operations at the U.S. statutory rate to the effective income tax expense rate as reported is as follows:
Significant components of the Company's deferred tax assets and liabilities were as follows:
The portions of current and non-current deferred tax assets and liabilities were as follows:
The effective tax rate continues to be lower than the statutory rate primarily due to the indefinite reinvestment of foreign earnings taxed at rates below the U.S. statutory rate as well as recognition of foreign tax credits. The Company has the ability to indefinitely reinvest these foreign earnings based on the earnings and cash projections of its other operations as well as cash on hand and available credit. The operations realignment to foreign jurisdictions, which generates foreign tax benefits, also reduces the domestic taxable income in some of the Company’s U.S. state jurisdictions. The Company is not likely to realize the benefit of a portion of the recorded deferred tax asset relating to state taxes in the foreseeable future. As such, a valuation allowance was recorded in 2010 of $3.4 million. In 2011, the valuation allowance was adjusted by an increase of $0.2 million for current activity. The Company identifies the accumulated earnings for the affiliates that were not indefinitely reinvested and computes the tax associated with the subsequent repatriation. This computation considers the impact of applicable withholding taxes and the availability of U.S. foreign tax credits. The Company has calculated the repatriation of all the accumulated earnings that are not indefinitely reinvested which resulted in a net tax liability of $3.7 million recorded by the Company as of December 31, 2011. The Company does not provide for deferred taxes on the excess of the financial reporting over the tax basis in our investments in foreign subsidiaries that are essentially permanent in duration. That excess is approximately $97.5 million as of December 31, 2011. The determination of the additional deferred taxes that have not been provided is not practicable. As of the beginning of fiscal year 2011, the Company had gross unrecognized tax benefits of $3.6 million, excluding accrued interest and penalties. The unrecognized tax benefits increased by $0.2 million for state income tax liabilities, while increasing $1.8 million for federal tax liabilities based on evaluations made during 2011. The Company had gross unrecognized tax benefits, excluding accrued interest and penalties, of $5.6 million as of December 31, 2011. A reconciliation of the beginning and ending amount of gross unrecognized tax benefits for 2011, 2010, and 2009 (excluding interest and penalties) is as follows:
If recognized, each annual effective tax rate would be affected by the net unrecognized tax benefits of $5.3 million, $3.2 million, and $5.7 million as of December 31, 2011, January 1, 2011, and January 2, 2010, respectively. Of the unrecognized tax benefits at December 31, 2011, $3.1 million are related to acquisitions for which indemnification was provided for in the respective purchase agreements. The stock purchase agreements related to these acquisitions provide the Company rights to recover tax liabilities related to pre-acquisition tax years from the sellers. Other amounts are associated with domestic state tax issues, such as nexus, as well as other federal and state uncertain tax positions. The Company recognizes interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits in income tax expense, the impact of which is immaterial. The Company has accrued interest and penalties as of December 31, 2011, January 1, 2011, and January 2, 2010 of approximately $0.5 million, $0.4 million, and $0.7 million, respectively. The Company is subject to taxation in the United States and various state and foreign jurisdictions. With few exceptions, as of December 31, 2011, the Company is no longer subject to U.S. federal, state, or foreign income tax examinations by tax authorities for years before 2008. It is reasonably possible that the amounts of unrecognized tax benefits could change in the next twelve months as a result of an audit or due to the expiration of a statute of limitation. Based on the current audits in process and pending statute expirations, the payment of taxes as a result could be up to $1.3 million. |