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Income Tax Expense (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2019
Income Tax Expense [Abstract] |
Schedule of Deferred Tax Assets and Liabilities | The significant components of the deferred tax assets and liabilities recorded in our accompanying balance sheets at March 31, 2019 and 2018 were as follows:
March 31, |  | 2019 |  | 2018
Deferred Tax Assets: |  |  |  |
Post-retirement benefit accrual |  | $ | 3,142 |  |  | $ | 3,505 |
Compensation |  | 14,275 |  |  | 12,334 |
Net operating loss carryforwards |  | 19,195 |  |  | 26,217 |
Accrued expenses |  | 4,858 |  |  | 5,795 |
Insurance |  | 3,187 |  |  | 3,417 |
Deferred income |  | 7,509 |  |  | 4,632 |
Bad debt |  | 1,386 |  |  | 1,426 |
Pension |  | 3,364 |  |  | 5,247 |
Other |  | 7,707 |  |  | 1,668 |
Deferred Tax Assets |  | 64,623 |  |  | 64,241 |
Less: Valuation allowance |  | 13,478 |  |  | 13,596 |
Total Deferred Tax Assets |  | 51,145 |  |  | 50,645 |
Deferred Tax Liabilities: |  |  |  |
Depreciation and depletion |  | 61,060 |  |  | 61,171 |
Intangibles |  | 128,479 |  |  | 140,398 |
Other |  | 2,197 |  |  | 2,774 |
Total Deferred Tax Liabilities |  | 191,736 |  |  | 204,343 |
Net Deferred Tax Assets (Liabilities) |  | $ | (140,591 | ) |  | $ | (153,698 | )
Schedule of Income before Income Tax, Domestic and Foreign | Income from continuing operations before income taxes was as follows:
Years Ended March 31, |  | 2019 |  | 2018 |  | 2017
United States operations |  | $ | 235,405 |  |  | $ | 203,872 |  |  | $ | 189,429 |
Ireland operations |  | 13,693 |  |  | 11,837 |  |  | 8,597 |
Other locations operations |  | 120,372 |  |  | 139,273 |  |  | (13,380 | )
|  | $ | 369,470 |  |  | $ | 354,982 |  |  | $ | 184,646 |
Schedule of Components of Income Tax Expense (Benefit) | The components of the provision for income taxes related to income from continuing operations consisted of the following:
Years Ended March 31, |  | 2019 |  | 2018 |  | 2017
Current: |  |  |  |  |  |
United States federal |  | $ | 29,943 |  |  | $ | 47,728 |  |  | $ | 43,900 |
United States state and local |  | 12,484 |  |  | 7,727 |  |  | 8,171 |
Ireland |  | 2,627 |  |  | 2,596 |  |  | 1,899 |
Other locations |  | 26,824 |  |  | 26,742 |  |  | 19,557 |
|  | 71,878 |  |  | 84,793 |  |  | 73,527 |
Deferred: |  |  |  |  |  |
United States federal |  | 5,775 |  |  | (15,728 | ) |  | 10,293 |
United States state and local |  | 2,836 |  |  | 2,656 |  |  | 2,131 |
Ireland |  | (546 | ) |  | (280 | ) |  | (645 | )
Other locations |  | (15,549 | ) |  | (8,081 | ) |  | (11,291 | )
|  | (7,484 | ) |  | (21,433 | ) |  | 488 |
Total Provision for Income Taxes |  | $ | 64,394 |  |  | $ | 63,360 |  |  | $ | 74,015 |
provision for taxes rate reconciliation | The total provision for income taxes can be reconciled to the tax computed at the Ireland statutory tax rate for 2019 and the United Kingdom statutory tax rate for 2018 and 2017 as follows:
Years Ended March 31, |  | 2019 |  | 2018 |  | 2017
National statutory tax rate |  | 12.5 | % |  | 19.0 | % |  | 20.0 | %
Increase in accruals for uncertain tax positions |  | — | % |  | 0.1 | % |  | 0.3 | %
U.S. state and local taxes, net of federal income tax benefit |  | 3.1 | % |  | 2.3 | % |  | 3.8 | %
Increase in valuation allowances |  | 0.4 | % |  | 0.1 | % |  | 0.1 | %
U.S. research and development credit |  | (0.6 | )% |  | (0.5 | )% |  | (1.1 | )%
U.S. foreign income tax credit |  | (0.2 | )% |  | (0.2 | )% |  | — | %
Difference in non-Ireland tax rates |  | 4.5 | % |  | — | % |  | — | %
Difference in non-United Kingdom tax rates |  | — | % |  | 4.1 | % |  | 6.0 | %
U.S. manufacturing deduction |  | — | % |  | (0.8 | )% |  | (2.5 | )%
Excess tax benefit for equity compensation |  | (2.2 | )% |  | (1.8 | )% |  | (2.8 | )%
Tax rate changes on deferred tax assets and liabilities |  | (0.6 | )% |  | (10.3 | )% |  | (2.3 | )%
U.S. transition tax on foreign earnings |  | (0.3 | )% |  | 4.9 | % |  | — | %
U.S. tax reform impact, GILTI and FDII |  | 0.3 | % |  | — | % |  | — | %
Acquisitions and divestitures |  | — | % |  | 0.5 | % |  | 9.0 | %
Goodwill impairment on divestitures |  | — | % |  | — | % |  | 7.9 | %
Capitalized acquisition, redomiciliation costs |  | 0.5 | % |  | — | % |  | 0.2 | %
All other, net |  | — | % |  | 0.4 | % |  | 1.5 | %
Total Provision for Income Taxes |  | 17.4 | % |  | 17.8 | % |  | 40.1 | %
Summary of Positions for which Significant Change in Unrecognized Tax Benefits is Reasonably Possible | A reconciliation of the beginning and ending balances of the total amounts of unrecognized tax benefits is as follows:
|  | 2019 |  | 2018
Unrecognized Tax Benefits Balance at April 1 |  | $ | 2,500 |  |  | $ | 1,884 |
Increases for tax provisions of current year |  | 178 |  |  | 356 |
Decreases for tax provisions of prior year |  | (186 | ) |  | — |
Other, including currency translation |  | (178 | ) |  | 260 |
Unrecognized Tax Benefits Balance at March 31 |  | $ | 2,314 |  |  | $ | 2,500 |

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