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Income Taxes
3 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2019
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes

19.Income Taxes

On December 22, 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Act”) was enacted by the U.S.  The Act implements comprehensive tax legislation which, among other changes, reduced the federal statutory corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% and implemented a territorial tax system that eliminated the ability to credit certain foreign taxes.

As we have a June 30 fiscal year end, the lower income tax rates were phased in, resulting in a blended rate for our fiscal year 2018 and a 21% rate for years thereafter.  Based on the provisions of the Act, we re-measured our U.S. deferred tax assets and related valuation allowance at the date of enactment  The re-measurement of U.S. deferred tax assets and related valuation allowance at the lower enacted corporate tax rate resulted in a net change of zero.  

Furthermore, the new Act repealed the Alternative Minimum Tax (“AMT”) on corporations.  Any AMT credit carryforwards can be used to offset regular tax for any tax year and is refundable, subject to limitation in 2018 - 2021. With this change, we expect to be able to use or monetize the AMT credit within the stated limitation period, and therefore, the valuation allowance recorded against the credit was removed in the second quarter of fiscal 2018.

The Act also imposed a tax on the untaxed foreign earnings of foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies by deeming those earnings to be repatriated (the “Transition Tax”).  Generally, foreign earnings held in the form of cash and cash equivalents are taxed by the U.S. at a 15.5% rate and the remaining earnings are taxed at an 8% rate. The Transition Tax generally may be paid in installments over an eight-year period.    We completed our evaluation and related calculations related to the Transition Tax during the second quarter of fiscal 2019, which confirmed our previous conclusion that our foreign tax credits would completely offset any tax calculated. As a result, we have not made any cash payments related to the Transition Tax.