Income Taxes	9 Months Ended
Sep. 28, 2019
Income Taxes
Income Taxes	Note 10 – Income Taxes Seaboard computes its year-to-date provision for income taxes by applying the estimated annual effective tax rate to year-to-date pretax income or loss and adjusts the provision for discrete tax items recorded in the period. Seaboard’s projected annual income tax rate for the third quarter of 2019 included $3 million of anticipated tax expense associated with the global intangible low-taxed income (“GILTI”) provision and no anticipated tax expense associated with the base-erosion and anti-abuse tax (“BEAT”) provision. In the normal course of business, Seaboard’s tax filings are subject to audit by federal, state and foreign tax authorities. The Internal Revenue Service began an examination of Seaboard’s 2016 U.S. income tax return during the third quarter of 2019.

The entire disclosure for income taxes. Disclosures may include net deferred tax liability or asset recognized in an enterprise's statement of financial position, net change during the year in the total valuation allowance, approximate tax effect of each type of temporary difference and carryforward that gives rise to a significant portion of deferred tax liabilities and deferred tax assets, utilization of a tax carryback, and tax uncertainties information.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 740
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2144680

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