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Income Taxes (Notes)
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2018
Income Tax Disclosure [Text Block]
INCOME TAXES
The Company’s provision for income taxes is based on the estimated annual effective tax rate, plus discrete items. The effective tax rates for the three months ended March 31, 2018 and 2017 were 23% and 43%, respectively. The difference between the Company’s effective tax rates for the three months ended March 31, 2018 and 2017 and the U.S. statutory tax rates of 21% and 35%, respectively, primarily relates to U.S. taxes on foreign earnings, foreign tax rate differentials, and nondeductible expenses.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“The 2017 Act”) was enacted on December 22, 2017. The 2017 Act reduced the U.S. federal corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21%, required companies to pay a one-time transition tax on earnings of certain foreign subsidiaries that were previously tax deferred and created new taxes on certain foreign sourced earnings. We are applying the guidance in Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 118 (“SAB 118”) when accounting for the enactment-date effect of the 2017 Act. We recognized a reasonable estimate of the tax effects of the 2017 Act as of December 31, 2017. However, as of March 31, 2018, our accounting is not complete. We will continue to refine our calculations as additional analysis is completed. Our estimates may also be affected as we gain a more thorough understanding of the tax law. The changes could be material to income tax expense.
In the first quarter of 2018, the Company completed the sale of its entire 51% equity interest in Masinloc, resulting in pre-tax gain of approximately $777 million. The sale resulted in approximately $155 million of discrete tax expense in the U.S. under the new GILTI provision, which subjects the earnings of foreign subsidiaries to current U.S. taxation to the extent those earnings exceed an allowable return. See Note 17—Held-for-Sale Businesses and Dispositions for details of the sale.