Income Taxes

Our income tax (provision) benefit consisted of the following:



Quarter ended	November 30, 2017			December 1, 2016
Utilization of and other changes in net deferred tax assets of MMJ, MMT, and MTTW	$	(26	)	$	(13	)
Other income tax (provision) benefit, primarily other non-U.S. operations	(88		)	(18		)
	$	(114	)	$	(31	)

We have a full valuation allowance for our net deferred tax asset associated with our U.S. operations. The amount of the deferred tax asset considered realizable could be adjusted if significant positive evidence increases. Income taxes on U.S. operations in the first quarters of 2018 and 2017 were substantially offset by changes in the valuation allowance.

We operate in a number of tax jurisdictions, including Singapore and Taiwan, where our earnings are indefinitely reinvested and are taxed at lower tax rates than the U.S. statutory rate and in a number of locations outside the United States, including Singapore, where we have tax incentive arrangements that are conditional, in part, upon meeting certain business operations and employment thresholds. The effect of tax incentive arrangements, which expire in whole or in part at various dates through 2030, reduced our tax provision by $391 million (benefitting our diluted earnings per share by $0.32) for the first quarter of 2018 and by $40 million ($0.04 per diluted share) for the first quarter of 2017.

U.S. tax reform legislation, if enacted on terms similar to current proposals, could reduce the U.S. corporate income tax rate and significantly affect how income from foreign operations is taxed in the United States. U.S. tax reform could subject a significant portion of cumulative and future foreign earnings to U.S. income taxes. We will assess the impact of U.S. tax reform on the realizability of the net deferred tax assets of our U.S. operations, which as of August 31, 2017, were reduced by a full valuation allowance of $1.52 billion. In addition, the reduction of the U.S. corporate income tax rate could have the effect of reducing the value of certain of our deferred tax assets in the United States. U.S. tax reform may have an adverse effect on our provision for income taxes and could cause a significant increase in our cash tax liabilities in the near term. We have available net operating loss and tax credit carryforwards that may partially offset taxes that result from U.S. tax reform.