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INCOME TAXES
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2018
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
INCOME TAXES
INCOME TAXES
Our quarterly income tax provision is calculated using an estimated annual effective income tax approach. The quarterly effective tax rate can differ from our estimated annual effective tax rate as the Company cannot apply an effective tax rate approach for all of its operations. For those entities that can apply an effective tax rate approach, as of June 30, 2018, our annual effective tax rate, excluding discrete items, is 25.6% for 2018, as compared to 25.9% for 2017. The remaining entities, which are operations that generate pre-tax losses which cannot be tax benefited and/or have an effective tax rate which cannot be reliably estimated, have to account for their income taxes on a discrete year-to-date basis as of the end of each quarter and are excluded from the effective tax rate approach. The estimated annual effective tax rate for 2018 also excludes the unfavorable impact of withholding taxes associated with certain intercompany payments, including royalties, service charges and dividends, which in the aggregate are relatively consistent each year due to the need to repatriate funds to cover U.S.-based costs, such as interest on debt and corporate overhead. Withholding taxes are accounted for discretely and accrued in the provision for income taxes as they become due.
The provision for income taxes for the three months ended June 30, 2018 and 2017 was $36.7 and $33.6, respectively. Our effective tax rates for the three months ended June 30, 2018 and 2017 were (12,233.3)% and (275.4)%, respectively. The provision for income taxes for the six months ended June 30, 2018 and 2017 was $68.2 and $63.4, respectively. Our effective tax rates for the six months ended June 30, 2018 and 2017 were 675.2% and (335.4)%, respectively.
The effective tax rates in 2018 and 2017 were impacted by CTI restructuring charges, country mix of earnings and withholding taxes that are relatively consistent. The effective tax rate in 2018 was also negatively impacted by one-time tax reserves of $5.5 for the three months ended June 30, 2018 and $14.7 for the six months ended June 30, 2018 associated with our uncertain tax positions.
In its initial analysis of the impacts of the Tax Cuts and Job Act (the “Act”) at year end 2017, the Company made provisional estimates that may be adjusted in future periods as required. As part of the 2017 provisional estimate, we provided for the Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income tax ("GILTI"), a US tax on certain foreign earnings, as a period cost. While still provisional, the first-quarter and second-quarter 2018 provisions for income taxes has been calculated treating GILTI as a period cost. The Act has significant complexity. Expected implementation guidance from the Internal Revenue Service, clarifications of state tax law and the information analyzed during the completion of the Company’s 2017 tax return filings could impact these provisional estimates.