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Income Taxes
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 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 immaterial out-of-period adjustments of $5 million benefit for the three months and $6 million expense for the nine months ended September 30, 2015. During 2014, we recorded immaterial out-of-period adjustments of $20 million for the three months and $15 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2014. The out-of-period adjustments were not material to the consolidated financial statements for any prior period.

Based on current tax laws, our 2015 estimated annual effective tax rate, excluding impacts from the third quarter gain on the disposition of our coffee business, is 23.1%, reflecting favorable impacts from the mix of pre-tax income in various non-U.S. tax jurisdictions. Our 2015 third quarter effective tax rate of 4.5% benefitted from the one-time third quarter sale of our coffee business that resulted in a pre-tax gain of $7,122 million and $197 million of related tax expense, as well as $21 million of tax costs incurred to remit proceeds up from lower-tier foreign subsidiaries to allow cash to be redeployed within our retained foreign operations. Other discrete one-time events, which partially offset the costs associated with the sale of our coffee business, of $40 million primarily related to favorable audit settlements and expirations of statutes of limitations in several jurisdictions. Our effective tax rate for the nine months ended September 30, 2015 of 6.5% was favorably impacted by the sale of our coffee business in the third quarter. Other significant discrete one-time events consisted of $54 million of tax charges related to the sale of our interest in AGF ($32 million in the first quarter upon the investment’s change to held-for-sale status and an additional $22 million upon the closing of the sale in the second quarter), and $75 million from favorable audit settlements and expirations of statutes of limitations in several jurisdictions.

As of the third quarter of 2014, our estimated annual effective tax rate for 2014 was 21.2%, 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 third quarter effective tax rate of 16.5% was favorably impacted by net tax benefits from $65 million of discrete one-time events. The discrete net tax benefits primarily related to $109 million from favorable tax audit settlements and expirations of statutes of limitations in several jurisdictions, partially offset by $20 million of out-of-period adjustments. Our effective tax rate for the nine months ended September 30, 2014 of 12.5% was favorably impacted by net tax benefits from $169 million of discrete one-time events. The discrete net tax benefits primarily related to favorable tax audit settlements and expirations of statutes of limitations in several jurisdictions.