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Income Taxes
 3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2025
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
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Our effective tax rate was 19% for the three months ended March 31, 2025, compared to an effective tax rate of 11% for the same period last year. The tax rates for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 were comprised of U.S. federal and state taxes, withholding taxes and foreign taxes that amounted to $128.5 million and $81.7 million, respectively. The tax rate for the three months ended March 31, 2025 included a tax provision of $30.6 million related to the derecognition of deferred tax assets from the business combination with Linksys, a tax benefit of $25.8 million from the foreign-derived intangible income (“FDII”) deduction, and excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation expense of $36.8 million. The tax rate for the three months ended March 31, 2024 was impacted by a tax benefit of $24.0 million from the FDII deduction, excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation expense of $18.2 million.

As of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, unrecognized tax benefits were $79.0 million and $75.9 million, respectively. If recognized, $64.0 million of the unrecognized tax benefits as of March 31, 2025 would favorably affect our effective tax rate. It is our policy to include accrued interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits in income tax expense. As of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, accrued interest and penalties were $9.8 million and $8.8 million, respectively.

We file income tax returns in the U.S. federal jurisdiction and in various U.S. state and foreign jurisdictions. Generally, we are no longer subject to examination by U.S federal income tax authorities for tax years prior to 2020 and by U.S. state and foreign tax authorities in our significant jurisdictions for tax years prior to 2016. We currently have ongoing tax audits in the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany and several other foreign jurisdictions. The focus of these audits is the inter-company profit allocation.
On January 4, 2022, the U.S. Treasury published another tranche of final regulations regarding the foreign tax credit. These final regulations impose new requirements that a foreign tax must meet in order to be creditable against U.S. income taxes, and generally apply to tax years beginning on or after December 28, 2021. On July 26, 2022, the U.S. Treasury released corrections to the final regulations. On July 21, 2023, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) released a notice that suspended the application of significant portions of the final regulations regarding the foreign tax credit for tax years 2022 and 2023. The notice released in July 2023 favorably impacted our ability to claim foreign tax credits in the United States for certain taxes imposed by certain foreign jurisdictions. On December 11, 2023, the IRS released a notice that extended the suspension of significant portions of the final regulations beyond December 31, 2023, until further guidance is issued.
In December 2021, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (the “OECD”) enacted model rules for a new global minimum tax framework (“BEPS Pillar Two”), and various governments around the world have enacted, or are in the process of enacting, legislation on this. The OECD continues to release additional guidance on these rules. Based on the enacted laws, BEPS Pillar Two has no impact to our effective tax rate or cash flows for the three months ended March 31, 2025. We will continue to evaluate the impact of these tax law changes on future reporting periods.