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Income Taxes

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2020

11.	Income Taxes

Our provision for income taxes on a consolidated basis was $49.1 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020 as compared to $63.5 million for the three months ended September 30, 2019. The decrease of $14.4 million is primarily related to the corresponding decrease in our consolidated pre-tax book income. Our effective tax rate increased to 21.0% for the three months ended September 30, 2020 from 19.7% for the three months ended September 30, 2019 primarily due to a larger impact on a percentage basis of unfavorable permanent book tax differences in certain non-U.S. jurisdictions due to lower pre-tax book income.

Our provision for income taxes on a consolidated basis was $119.0 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 as compared to $169.9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2019. The decrease of $50.9 million is primarily related to the corresponding decrease in consolidated pre-tax book income. Our effective tax rate increased to 21.3% for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 from 20.7% for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 primarily due to a larger impact on a percentage basis of unfavorable permanent book tax differences in certain non-U.S. jurisdictions due to lower pre-tax book income.

Our effective tax rate for the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2020 was not significantly different than the U.S. federal statutory tax rate of 21.0%.

As of September 30, 2020, the company had gross unrecognized tax benefits of $142.2 million; a net increase of $1.0 million was recorded over the nine months ended September 30, 2020. The net increase of $1.0 million consists of unrecognized tax benefits of $6.4 million through the six months ended June 30, 2020 and a release of $5.4 million of gross unrecognized tax benefits in the current quarter, primarily related to expiration of statute of limitations in various tax jurisdictions.

The CARES Act has not had, nor is it expected to have, a significant impact on our effective tax rate for 2020.

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The entire disclosure for income taxes. Disclosures may include net deferred tax liability or asset recognized in an enterprise's statement of financial position, net change during the year in the total valuation allowance, approximate tax effect of each type of temporary difference and carryforward that gives rise to a significant portion of deferred tax liabilities and deferred tax assets, utilization of a tax carryback, and tax uncertainties information.

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