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Income Taxes
6 Months Ended
Dec. 30, 2018
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes

Income Taxes

Our income tax provision for the three and six month periods ended December 31, 2017 were impacted by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (“the Act”), which was signed into law on December 22, 2017 with an effective date of January 1, 2018. The Act made broad and complex changes to the U.S. tax code that affected our tax provision beginning January 1, 2018, including but not limited to (1) a reduction in the U.S. statutory tax rate to 21 percent following its effective date and a change in the measurement of our deferred tax assets and deferred tax liabilities resulting from the reduction in the statutory rate, (2) requiring a one-time transition tax on certain repatriated earnings of foreign subsidiaries that is payable over eight years, and (3) bonus depreciation that will allow for full expensing of qualified property. Section 15 of the Internal Revenue Code stipulates that for our fiscal year ended July 1, 2018, a blended statutory corporate tax rate of 28% was applicable, which was based on the applicable statutory rates before and after the effective date of the Act and the number of days in our fiscal year.          

The SEC staff issued SAB 118, which provides guidance on accounting for the tax effects of the Act.  SAB 118 provides a measurement period that should not extend beyond one year from the Act’s enactment date for companies to complete the accounting under ASC 740.  In accordance with SAB 118, a company must reflect the income tax effects of those aspects of the Act for which the accounting under ASC 740 is complete.  To the extent that a company’s accounting for certain income tax effects of the Act is incomplete but the company is able to determine a reasonable estimate, it must record a provisional estimate in the financial statements.  If a company cannot determine a provisional estimate to be included in the financial statements, it should continue to apply ASC 740 on the basis of the provision of the tax laws that were in effect immediately before the enactment of the Act.  

In connection with our analysis of the impact of the Act, we recorded a discrete net tax benefit of $545,000 for the three and six month periods ended December 31, 2017.  This net tax benefit primarily consisted of (1) the impact of the change in measurement of our deferred tax assets and liabilities, (2) the one-time transition tax on non-previously taxed post 1986 accumulated foreign earnings, and (3) the impact of changing our annualized effective tax rate.  For various reasons that are discussed more fully below, we did not complete our accounting for the income tax effects for certain elements of the Act as of December 31, 2017.  However, we were able to make reasonable estimates of certain effects and, therefore, recorded provisional adjustments of these elements during the three month period ended December 31, 2017.  We identified these items as provisional since our analysis of the items was not complete.

 

The Act reduced the corporate tax rate to 21 percent, effective January 1, 2018. For certain of our net deferred tax assets, we recorded a provisional adjustment to reflect the reduction in the corporate tax rate.  While we are able to make a reasonable estimate of the impact of the reduction in the corporate rate, it may be affected by other analyses related to the Act, including, but not limited to, the impact of our calculation of deemed repatriation of deferred foreign income and the impact of full expensing for certain assets.

 

The Deemed Repatriation Transition Tax (“Transition Tax”) is a tax on previously untaxed accumulated and current earnings and profits (E&P) of certain of our foreign subsidiaries. To determine the amount of the Transition Tax, in addition to other factors, the amount of post-1986 E&P of the relevant subsidiaries must be determined, as well as the amount of non-U.S. income taxes paid on such earnings. We were able to make a reasonable estimate of the Transition Tax and recorded a provisional Transition Tax obligation in the accompanying condensed financial statements for the three months ended December 31, 2017. However, as of December 31, 2017, additional information needed to be gathered to more precisely compute the amount of the Transition Tax.

 

We were required to assess whether our valuation allowance analyses was affected by various aspects of the Act (e.g., deemed repatriation of deferred foreign income, Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income (“GILTI”) inclusions, and new categories of Foreign Tax Credits). Since, as discussed herein, we recorded provisional amounts related to certain portions of the Act, any corresponding determination of the need for or change in a valuation allowance was also provisional.

 

Measurement period adjustments related to the Act recorded in the six month period ended December 30, 2018 totaled $372,000. As of December 30, 2018, we have completed our accounting for all income tax elements of the Act 

 

Our income tax provision for the three and six month periods ended December 30, 2018 were impacted by a $7.9 million tax benefit resulting from the termination of our qualified, noncontributory defined benefit pension plan as discussed under Pension and Postretirement Benefits below and a reduction in the expected effective tax rate as compared to the prior year period. Our income tax provision for the six month period ended December 30, 2018 was also impacted by a discrete benefit of $372,000, which represents measurement period adjustments to the one-time transition tax on non-previously taxed post 1986 accumulated foreign earnings. The expected annual effective tax rate between our fiscal 2019 and 2018 years decreased from approximately 18.5 percent as of the prior year quarter to approximately 5.1 percent as of the current year quarter due to the reduction in the U.S. statutory rate between years and changes in the U.S. taxation of non-U.S. earnings.

  Additionally, our income tax provisions for the three and six months ended December 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017 were affected by the non-controlling interest portion of our pre-tax income. The non-controlling interest impacts the effective tax rate as ADAC-STRATTEC LLC and STRATTEC POWER ACCESS LLC entities are taxed as partnerships for U.S. tax purposes.