Note 8:

Income Taxes

The Company’s effective tax rate for the three months ended December 31, 2017 and 2016 was 482.2 percent and (58.3) percent, respectively. The Company’s effective tax rate for the nine months ended December 31, 2017 and 2016 was 86.6 percent and 16.0 percent, respectively. The effective tax rates for the fiscal 2018 periods are higher than in the prior year, primarily due to third quarter charges totaling $35.7 million related to the recently-enacted tax reform legislation in the U.S. Other factors that impacted the Company’s effective tax rate for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2017, as compared with the prior-year periods, were income tax benefits resulting from a development tax credit in Hungary, changes in the valuation allowances related to certain foreign jurisdictions, and changes in the mix of foreign and domestic earnings. In addition, the effective tax rate for the nine months ended December 31, 2017 benefitted from a $1.8 million reduction in unrecognized tax benefits during the second quarter of fiscal 2018 that resulted from a lapse in statutes of limitations. The development tax credit in Hungary resulted in a tax benefit of $2.2 million and $7.9 million in the three and nine months ended December 31, 2017, respectively.

On December 22, 2017, the U.S. government enacted comprehensive tax legislation commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Tax Act”). The Tax Act includes broad and complex changes to the U.S. tax code, including (i) a reduction in the U.S. federal corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent effective January 1, 2018, and (ii) a transition tax on certain unrepatriated earnings of foreign subsidiaries. For fiscal 2018, the Company will record its income tax provision based on a blended U.S. statutory tax rate of 31.5 percent, which is based on a proration of the applicable tax rates before and after the effective date of the Tax Act. The statutory tax rate of 21 percent will apply for fiscal 2019 and beyond.

The Tax Act also puts in place new tax laws that may impact the Company’s taxable income beginning in fiscal 2019, which include, but are not limited to (i) creating a base erosion anti-abuse tax (BEAT), which is a new minimum tax, (ii) generally eliminating U.S. federal income taxes on dividends from foreign subsidiaries, (iii) adding a new provision designed to tax global intangible low taxed income (GILTI), (iv) adding a provision that could limit the amount of deductible interest expense, and (v) limiting the deductibility of certain executive compensation.

Shortly after the Tax Act was enacted, the SEC issued accounting guidance, which provides a one-year measurement period during which a company may complete its accounting for the impacts of the Tax Act. To the extent a company’s accounting for certain income tax effects of the Tax Act is incomplete, the company may determine a reasonable estimate for those effects and record a provisional estimate in its financial statements. If a company cannot determine a provisional estimate to be included in the financial statements, it should continue to apply the provisions of the tax laws that were in effect immediately prior to the Tax Act being enacted.

During the third quarter of fiscal 2018, the Company recorded provisional discrete tax charges of $35.7 million related to the Tax Act. The Company adjusted its U.S. deferred tax assets by $20.7 million due to the reduction in the U.S. federal corporate tax rate. This net reduction in deferred tax assets also included the estimated impact on the Company’s net state deferred tax assets. In addition, the Company recorded a $15.0 million charge for the transition tax. The Company expects to pay this estimated $15.0 million tax liability over the next eight years, beginning with a payment of approximately $1.0 million in fiscal 2019.

The Company is also analyzing other provisions of the Tax Act to determine if they will impact the Company’s effective tax rate in fiscal 2018 or in the future. These provisions include BEAT, as described above, the elimination of U.S. federal income taxes on dividends from foreign subsidiaries, the new limits on the deductibility of interest expense and executive compensation, and the state tax implications of the Tax Act, including the impact of the transition tax and the impact on the realizability of tax attributes and valuation allowances.

The Tax Act includes a provision designed to tax GILTI, as described above, starting in fiscal 2019. The Company has elected to record the tax effects of the GILTI provision as a period expense in the applicable tax year. As a result, the Company does not expect GILTI to impact its fiscal 2018 income tax provision.

For various reasons, the Company has not completed its accounting for the income tax effects of certain elements of the Tax Act. In regards to the reduction in the U.S. corporate tax rate, the Company is continuing to analyze the temporary differences that existed on the date of enactment, and the temporary differences originating in the current fiscal year. In regards to the transition tax, the Company is awaiting further interpretative guidance, continuing to assess available tax methods and elections, and continuing to gather additional information to more precisely compute the amount of this tax. Previously, the Company’s practice and intention was to reinvest, with certain insignificant exceptions, the earnings of its non-U.S. subsidiaries outside of the U.S. As a result, the Company did not record U.S. deferred income taxes or foreign withholding taxes for these earnings. The Company is currently analyzing its global working capital requirements and the potential tax liabilities that would be incurred if the non-U.S. subsidiaries distribute cash to the U.S. parent, which include local country withholding tax and potential U.S. state taxes. The Company expects to complete its analysis of the accounting guidance related to the Tax Act and its evaluation of the impacts of the Tax Act in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018 or in early fiscal 2019.

At December 31, 2017, valuation allowances against deferred tax assets in certain foreign jurisdictions totaled $47.4 million and valuation allowances against certain U.S. deferred tax assets totaled $7.0 million, as it is more likely than not these assets will not be realized based upon historical financial results. The $1.2 million increase in the U.S. valuation allowances during the three months ended December 31, 2017 relates mainly to adjustments made to state tax attributes as a result of tax reform. The Company will continue to provide a valuation allowance against its net deferred tax assets in each of the applicable jurisdictions until the need for a valuation allowance is eliminated. The need for a valuation allowance is eliminated when the Company determines it is more likely than not the deferred tax assets will be realized. The Company may release the valuation allowance (approximately $3.0 million) in a foreign jurisdiction during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018 or in fiscal 2019.

Accounting policies for interim reporting require the Company to adjust its effective tax rate each quarter to be consistent with its estimated annual effective tax rate. Under this methodology, the Company applies its estimated annual income tax rate to its year-to-date ordinary earnings to derive its income tax provision each quarter. The Company records the tax impacts of certain significant, unusual or infrequently occurring items in the period in which they occur. The Company excluded the impact of its operations in certain foreign locations from the overall effective tax rate methodology and recorded them discretely based upon year-to-date results because the Company anticipates net operating losses for the full fiscal year in these jurisdictions. The Company does not anticipate a significant change in unrecognized tax benefits during the remainder of fiscal 2018.