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Income Taxes
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2015
Income Taxes

Note 13.  Income Taxes

During 2015, as part of our ongoing remediation efforts related to the material weakness in internal controls over the accounting for income taxes, we recorded out-of-period adjustments that had an immaterial impact on the provision for income taxes of $7 million for the three months ended March 31, 2015. 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 2015 is 20.5%, reflecting favorable impacts from the mix of pre-tax income in various non-U.S. tax jurisdictions. Our 2015 first quarter effective tax rate of 26.6% was unfavorably impacted by net tax expense from $25 million of discrete one-time events. The discrete net tax expense primarily consisted of a $32 million tax charge related to the sale of our interest in a Japanese coffee joint venture that subsequently closed on April 23, 2015. The investment’s change to held-for-sale status in the first quarter of 2015 resulted in the recognition of the tax charge since we are no longer indefinitely reinvested in this joint venture.

As of the first quarter of 2014, our estimated annual effective tax rate for 2014 was 20.1%, 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 first quarter effective tax rate of (22.0)% 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 $52 million in the quarter, $51 million related to favorable tax audit settlements and expirations of statutes of limitations in several jurisdictions.