Income Taxes |
3 Months Ended |
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Mar. 31, 2018 | |
| Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract] | |
| Income Taxes |
Income Taxes
The Company recorded an income tax benefit of $4.7 million and a provision of $2.8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2018 and 2017, respectively. In general, the effective rate for the three months ended March 31, 2018 differs from the federal income tax rate due to the effects of foreign tax rate differences, foreign withholding taxes, and changes in valuation allowance. In general, the effective rate for the three months ended March 31, 2017 differs from the federal income tax rate due to the effects of foreign tax rate differences, changes in unrecognized tax benefits, changes in valuation allowance, and deferred tax expense on amortization of indefinite-lived intangible assets.
Due to uncertainty as to the realization of benefits from the Company's U.S. and certain international net deferred tax assets, including net operating loss carryforwards, the Company has a full valuation allowance reserved against such net deferred tax assets. The Company intends to continue to maintain a full valuation allowance on certain jurisdictions’ net deferred tax assets until there is sufficient evidence to support the reversal of all or some portion of these allowances.
As of March 31, 2018 and December 31, 2017, the liability for income taxes associated with uncertain tax positions was $8.5 million and $8.7 million, respectively. As of March 31, 2018 and December 31, 2017, the Company had accrued $6.7 million and $6.5 million, respectively, of interest and penalties related to uncertain tax positions. It is reasonably possible that the amount of the unrecognized benefit with respect to certain of the Company’s unrecognized tax positions may significantly decrease within the next 12 months. This change may be the result of settlement of ongoing foreign audits.
In December, 2017, the United States enacted new U.S. federal tax legislation known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Tax Act”). The Tax Act significantly revises the U.S. corporate income tax regime by, among other things, lowering corporate income tax rates, implementing a territorial tax system and imposing a repatriation tax on deemed repatriated earnings of foreign subsidiaries.
In accordance with SAB 118, we have estimated the impacts of the Tax Act using information known at this time, including an income tax benefit of $4.6 million in the year ended December 31, 2017 reflecting the revaluation of our net deferred tax liability based on a U.S. federal tax rate of 21 percent and are expecting no tax impact related to the estimated repatriation of net taxable income of $18.5 million, which will be fully offset by the net operating loss generated in 2017. As of March 31, 2018, our management is still evaluating the effects of the Tax Act provisions, and our assessment does not purport to disclose all changes relating to the Tax Act that could have material positive or negative impacts on our current or future tax positions.
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