Income Taxes

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2011

Income Taxes

Income Taxes

9.           INCOME TAXES

A reconciliation of the U.S. federal statutory rate to our effective tax rate, excluding the results of the discontinued United Kingdom operations, is as follows:

	For the Three Months Ended June 30,						For the Six Months Ended June 30,
	2011			2010			2011			2010
U.S. federal statutory rate		35.0	%		35.0	%		35.0	%		35.0	%
State income taxes		2.6	%		1.7	%		2.2	%		1.9	%
Changes in reserve for uncertain tax positions as a result of settlements and lapsed statutes and related interest		-0.6	%		-10.6	%		-0.8	%		-5.2	%
Other		-0.5	%		0.3	%		-0.2	%		0.2	%
Effective tax rate		36.5	%		26.4	%		36.2	%		31.9	%

The differences between the U.S. federal statutory rate and our effective tax rate are primarily due to state income taxes and reserves for uncertain tax positions and related interest that are included in the provision for income taxes.

The increase in the effective tax rate for the three and six months ended June 30, 2011, as compared to the same periods in 2010, is primarily due to changes in the reserve for uncertain tax positions.  During the three and six months ended June 2010, we reversed certain reserves for uncertain tax positions that were resolved and settled with the IRS.  This reversal decreased our effective tax rate for the 2010 periods.