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Income Taxes
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2016
Income Taxes

Note 13.   Income Taxes

Based on current tax laws, our estimated annual effective tax rate for 2016 is 22.0%, reflecting favorable impacts from the mix of pre-tax income in various non-U.S. tax jurisdictions. Our 2016 first quarter effective tax rate of 10.3% was favorably impacted by net tax benefit from $56 million of discrete one-time events. The discrete net tax benefit primarily consisted of a $39 million benefit from release of uncertain tax positions due to expirations of statutes of limitations in several jurisdictions.

As of the first quarter of 2015, our estimated annual effective tax rate for 2015 was 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 were no longer indefinitely reinvested in this joint venture.