Income Taxes	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2015
Income Taxes
Income Taxes	11. Income Taxes At September 30, 2015 and December 31, 2014, the Company had a net deferred tax liability balance of $100.8 million and $38.3 million, respectively, within its condensed consolidated balance sheets. The Company accounts for income taxes in accordance with ASC 740 “Income Taxes”. Under ASC 740, deferred tax assets and liabilities are determined based on the differences between the financial statement carrying amount and the tax bases of existing assets and liabilities and are measured at the prevailing enacted tax rates that will be in effect when these differences are settled or realized. ASC 740 also requires that deferred tax assets be reduced by a valuation allowance if it is more-likely-than-not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. In the fourth quarter of 2013, the Company concluded that as a result of the failed spin-off-leaseback accounting treatment which resulted in a significant increase to its deferred tax assets, a valuation allowance should be recorded on the Company’s deferred tax assets given the significant negative evidence associated with being in or expecting to be in a three year cumulative pre-tax loss position and the insufficient objectively verifiable positive evidence to support the realization of the Company’s deferred tax assets. This resulted in an increase to the Company’s income tax provision of $17.8 million and $30.9 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2015, respectively, and $17.8 million and $34.5 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2014, respectively. The Company calculates the provision for income taxes during interim reporting periods by applying an estimate of the annual effective tax rate (“ETR”) to the full year projected pretax book income or loss excluding certain discrete items. The Company’s ETR (income taxes as a percentage of income from operations before income taxes) was 87.83% and 86.41% for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2015, primarily due to the year-over-year increase in pre-tax earnings that had a favorable impact to our effective rate compared to the three and nine months ended September 30, 2014 whose effective tax rate was not meaningful due to the low levels of pretax income recorded in these periods. The increase in the valuation allowance recorded since December 31, 2014 increased our quarterly and year to date effective tax rate by approximately 43%.

11. Income Taxes

At September 30, 2015 and December 31, 2014, the Company had a net deferred tax liability balance of $100.8 million and $38.3 million, respectively, within its condensed consolidated balance sheets. The Company accounts for income taxes in accordance with ASC 740 “Income Taxes”. Under ASC 740, deferred tax assets and liabilities are determined based on the differences between the financial statement carrying amount and the tax bases of existing assets and liabilities and are measured at the prevailing enacted tax rates that will be in effect when these differences are settled or realized. ASC 740 also requires that deferred tax assets be reduced by a valuation allowance if it is more-likely-than-not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. In the fourth quarter of 2013, the Company concluded that as a result of the failed spin-off-leaseback accounting treatment which resulted in a significant increase to its deferred tax assets, a valuation allowance should be recorded on the Company’s deferred tax assets given the significant negative evidence associated with being in or expecting to be in a three year cumulative pre-tax loss position and the insufficient objectively verifiable positive evidence to support the realization of the Company’s deferred tax assets. This resulted in an increase to the Company’s income tax provision of $17.8 million and $30.9 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2015, respectively, and $17.8 million and $34.5 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2014, respectively.

The Company calculates the provision for income taxes during interim reporting periods by applying an estimate of the annual effective tax rate (“ETR”) to the full year projected pretax book income or loss excluding certain discrete items. The Company’s ETR (income taxes as a percentage of income from operations before income taxes) was 87.83% and 86.41% for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2015, primarily due to the year-over-year increase in pre-tax earnings that had a favorable impact to our effective rate compared to the three and nine months ended September 30, 2014 whose effective tax rate was not meaningful due to the low levels of pretax income recorded in these periods. The increase in the valuation allowance recorded since December 31, 2014 increased our quarterly and year to date effective tax rate by approximately 43%.