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Income Taxes
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2016
Income Taxes

NOTE 13 – INCOME TAXES

Income tax expense increased by $0.6 million to $0.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2016 from $0.1 million of income tax benefit for the three months ended March 28, 2015, primarily due to higher pre-tax income and a $0.1 million lower year-over-year discrete tax benefit related to the exercise of certain employee stock options. Our effective tax rate increased to 15.0% for the three months ended March 31, 2016 compared with (16.9)% in the prior year period. In addition, our effective tax rate continues to be lower than the statutory tax rate in the United States primarily as a result of our global footprint in foreign jurisdictions with lower tax rates. Our effective tax rate could be impacted positively or negatively by geographic changes in the manufacturing or sales of our products and a change in statutory tax rates in a jurisdiction, as well as the resulting effect on taxable income in each jurisdiction.