Income Taxes	9 Months Ended
Jan. 27, 2018
Income Taxes
Income Taxes	Note 14: Income Taxes We determine our tax provision using an estimated annual effective tax rate and adjusting for discrete taxable events that occur during the quarter. We recognize the effects of tax legislation in the period in which the law is enacted. We re-measure our deferred tax assets and liabilities using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years we estimate the related temporary differences to reverse. On December 22, 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Tax Act”) was enacted into law. Most of its provisions are effective for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2018. Because we are a fiscal year U.S. taxpayer, the majority of the provisions, such as eliminating the domestic manufacturing deduction, new taxes on certain foreign-sourced income and new limitations on certain business deductions, will begin applying to us in our fiscal 2019. For fiscal 2018, the most significant impacts include: a lower U.S. federal corporate income tax rate, a different calculation of certain net deferred taxes, and a new transition tax on the deemed repatriation of certain foreign earnings. The phasing in of the lower corporate income tax rate resulted in a blended federal rate of 30.4% for our fiscal 2018, compared with the previous 35% rate. The federal tax rate will be reduced to 21% in subsequent fiscal years. We recorded a charge of $9.5 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2018, reflecting the net effect of the Tax Act. This included a $9.8 million charge for the provisional re-measurement of certain deferred taxes and related amounts, a provisional $1.9 million of income tax expense for the estimated effects of the transition tax, and a benefit of $2.2 million primarily related to the lower blended federal tax rate. As described above we made reasonable estimates, based on our current interpretation of the Tax Act, to record provisional adjustments during the third quarter of fiscal 2018. We may alter our estimates during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018 as we continue to accumulate and process data to finalize the underlying calculations and review further guidance that we expect regulators to issue. We are also analyzing other provisions of the Tax Act to determine if they will impact our effective tax rate in fiscal 2018 or in the future. We will continue to refine our adjustments through the permissible measurement period, which is not to extend beyond one year of the enactment date. Our effective tax rate for the third quarter and first nine months of fiscal 2018, was 62.0% and 43.9%, respectively. For the third quarter and first nine months of fiscal 2017, our effective tax rate was 29.4% and 33.4%, respectively. Our effective tax rate in fiscal 2018 was higher than in the prior year, primarily due to charges related to the Tax Act, as described above. Additionally, our effective tax rate in both years varies from the federal statutory rate in effect for the respective periods primarily due to state taxes, less the benefit of the U.S. manufacturing deduction and foreign earnings in jurisdictions with lower tax rates than the U.S. Our consolidated balance sheet at the end of the third quarter of fiscal 2018 reflected a $1.1 million net liability for uncertain income tax positions. We do not expect this net liability to change significantly in the next 12 months. We will either pay or release the liability for uncertain income tax positions as tax audits are completed or settled, statutes of limitation expire or other new information becomes available.

Note 14: Income Taxes

We determine our tax provision using an estimated annual effective tax rate and adjusting for discrete taxable events that occur during the quarter. We recognize the effects of tax legislation in the period in which the law is enacted. We re-measure our deferred tax assets and liabilities using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years we estimate the related temporary differences to reverse.

On December 22, 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Tax Act”) was enacted into law. Most of its provisions are effective for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2018. Because we are a fiscal year U.S. taxpayer, the majority of the provisions, such as eliminating the domestic manufacturing deduction, new taxes on certain foreign-sourced income and new limitations on certain business deductions, will begin applying to us in our fiscal 2019. For fiscal 2018, the most significant impacts include: a lower U.S. federal corporate income tax rate, a different calculation of certain net deferred taxes, and a new transition tax on the deemed repatriation of certain foreign earnings. The phasing in of the lower corporate income tax rate resulted in a blended federal rate of 30.4% for our fiscal 2018, compared with the previous 35% rate. The federal tax rate will be reduced to 21% in subsequent fiscal years.

We recorded a charge of $9.5 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2018, reflecting the net effect of the Tax Act. This included a $9.8 million charge for the provisional re-measurement of certain deferred taxes and related amounts, a provisional $1.9 million of income tax expense for the estimated effects of the transition tax, and a benefit of $2.2 million primarily related to the lower blended federal tax rate.

As described above we made reasonable estimates, based on our current interpretation of the Tax Act, to record provisional adjustments during the third quarter of fiscal 2018. We may alter our estimates during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018 as we continue to accumulate and process data to finalize the underlying calculations and review further guidance that we expect regulators to issue. We are also analyzing other provisions of the Tax Act to determine if they will impact our effective tax rate in fiscal 2018 or in the future. We will continue to refine our adjustments through the permissible measurement period, which is not to extend beyond one year of the enactment date.

Our effective tax rate for the third quarter and first nine months of fiscal 2018, was 62.0% and 43.9%, respectively. For the third quarter and first nine months of fiscal 2017, our effective tax rate was 29.4% and 33.4%, respectively. Our effective tax rate in fiscal 2018 was higher than in the prior year, primarily due to charges related to the Tax Act, as described above. Additionally, our effective tax rate in both years varies from the federal statutory rate in effect for the respective periods primarily due to state taxes, less the benefit of the U.S. manufacturing deduction and foreign earnings in jurisdictions with lower tax rates than the U.S.

Our consolidated balance sheet at the end of the third quarter of fiscal 2018 reflected a $1.1 million net liability for uncertain income tax positions. We do not expect this net liability to change significantly in the next 12 months. We will either pay or release the liability for uncertain income tax positions as tax audits are completed or settled, statutes of limitation expire or other new information becomes available.