6. Income Taxes

Reconciliations of income taxes for the periods ended March 31 are as follows.



(PPL)
	Three Months
	2019			2018
Federal income tax on Income Before Income Taxes at statutory tax rate - 21%	$	124		$	119
Increase (decrease) due to:
State income taxes, net of federal income tax benefit	13			15
Valuation allowance adjustments	7			7
Impact of lower U.K. income tax rates	(8		)	(7		)
Amortization of excess deferred federal and state income taxes	(11		)	(10		)
Other	1			(7		)
Total increase (decrease)	2			(2		)
Total income taxes	$	126		$	117



(PPL Electric)
	Three Months
	2019			2018
Federal income tax on Income Before Income Taxes at statutory tax rate - 21%	$	34		$	41
Increase (decrease) due to:
State income taxes, net of federal income tax benefit	13			15
Amortization of excess deferred income taxes	(4		)	(5		)
Other	(1		)	(2		)
Total increase (decrease)	8			8
Total income taxes	$	42		$	49



(LKE)
	Three Months
	2019			2018
Federal income tax on Income Before Income Taxes at statutory tax rate - 21%	$	33		$	38
Increase (decrease) due to:
State income taxes, net of federal income tax benefit (a)	6			8
Amortization of excess deferred federal and state income taxes	(6		)	(5		)
Other	(1		)	(2		)
Total increase (decrease)	(1		)	1
Total income taxes	$	32		$	39


(a)	The Kentucky corporate income tax rate was reduced from 6% to 5%, as enacted by HB 487, which became law in April 2018 and is effective for taxable years beginning January 1, 2018.



(LG&E)
	Three Months
	2019			2018
Federal income tax on Income Before Income Taxes at statutory tax rate - 21%	$	17		$	20
Increase (decrease) due to:
State income taxes, net of federal income tax benefit (a)	3			4
Amortization of excess deferred federal and state income taxes	(3		)	(2		)
Other	—			(1		)
Total increase (decrease)	—			1
Total income taxes	$	17		$	21


(a)	The Kentucky corporate income tax rate was reduced from 6% to 5%, as enacted by HB 487, which became law in April 2018 and is effective for taxable years beginning January 1, 2018.



(KU)
	Three Months
	2019			2018
Federal income tax on Income Before Income Taxes at statutory tax rate - 21%	$	22		$	23
Increase (decrease) due to:
State income taxes, net of federal income tax benefit (a)	4			5
Amortization of excess deferred federal and state income taxes	(3		)	(3		)
Other	(1		)	(1		)
Total increase (decrease)	—			1
Total income taxes	$	22		$	24


(a)	The Kentucky corporate income tax rate was reduced from 6% to 5%, as enacted by HB 487, which became law in April 2018 and is effective for taxable years beginning January 1, 2018.

Other

U.S. Tax Reform (All Registrants)

The IRS issued proposed regulations for certain provisions of the TCJA in 2018, including interest deductibility and Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income (GILTI). PPL has determined that the proposed regulations related to GILTI do not materially change PPL's current interpretation of the statutory impact of these rules on the company. Proposed regulations relating to the limitation on the deductibility of interest expense were issued in November 2018 and such regulations provide detailed rules implementing the broader statutory provisions. These proposed regulations should not apply to the Registrants until the year in which the regulations are issued in final form, which is expected to be 2019. It is uncertain what form the final regulations will take and, therefore, the Registrants cannot predict what impact the final regulations will have on the tax deductibility of interest expense. However, if the proposed regulations were issued as final in their current form, the Registrants could have a limitation on a portion of their interest expense deduction for tax purposes and such limitation could be significant. PPL expressed its views on these proposed regulations in a comment letter addressed to the IRS on February 26, 2019.