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Income Taxes
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2014
Income Taxes

Note 14.  Income Taxes

See Note 1, Basis of Presentation – Revision of Financial Statements, for information related to the revision of income taxes. During the three months ended June 30, 2014, as part of our ongoing remediation efforts related to the material weakness in internal controls over the accounting for income taxes, we recorded a number of out-of-period adjustments that had an immaterial benefit on the provision for income taxes for the three months ended June 30, 2014 of $5 million. The out-of-period adjustments were not material to the consolidated financial statements for any prior period.

Based on current tax laws, our estimated annual effective tax rate for 2014 is 19.6%, reflecting favorable impacts from the mix of pre-tax income in various non-U.S. tax jurisdictions, partially offset by the remeasurement of our Venezuelan net monetary assets. Our 2014 second quarter effective tax rate of 12.4% was favorably impacted by net tax benefits from $52 million of discrete one-time events, of which $37 million related to tax return to provision adjustments and $9 million related to favorable tax audit settlements and expirations of statutes of limitations in several jurisdictions. Our effective tax rate for the six months ended June 30, 2014 of 7.5% was due to net tax benefits from discrete one-time events and lower pre-tax income due to the tender-related loss on debt extinguishment and the remeasurement of the Venezuela net monetary assets. Of the discrete net tax benefits of $104 million, $60 million related to favorable tax audit settlements and expirations of statutes of limitations in several jurisdictions and $37 million related to tax return to provision adjustments.

As of the second quarter of 2013, our estimated annual effective tax rate for 2013 was 19.7%, reflecting favorable impacts from the mix of pre-tax income in various non-U.S. tax jurisdictions. Our 2013 second quarter effective tax rate of 4.4% was favorably impacted by net tax benefits from $93 million of discrete one-time events, of which $52 million related to favorable tax audit settlements and expirations of statutes of limitations in several jurisdictions and $39 million was associated with a business divestiture. Our effective tax rate for the six months ended June 30, 2013 of 3.5% was favorably impacted by net tax benefits from $186 million of discrete one-time events, of which, $132 million related to favorable tax audit settlements and expirations of statutes of limitations in several jurisdictions and $39 million was associated with a business divestiture.