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INCOME TAX
 9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2022
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
INCOME TAX INCOME TAX
For the three months ended September 30, 2022, our effective income tax rate was 5.2%, and it differed from the U.S. statutory rate primarily due to the favorable effects of foreign interest income not subject to tax, tax credits, and the foreign-derived intangible income deduction. The effective rate also included the favorable effects of adjustments to unrecognized income tax benefits related to certain U.S. federal income tax positions and remeasurement of state deferred taxes to reflect enacted tax law changes. For the nine months ended September 30, 2022, we incurred income tax expense in spite of reporting a loss before income taxes primarily due to the unfavorable effects of the goodwill impairment charge and loss on the sale of our Merchant Solutions business in Russia for which no tax benefit was recognized. These effects were partially offset by the same items that favorably affected the rate for the three months ended September 30, 2022.

Our effective income tax rates for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 were 15.5% and 16.3%, respectively. Our effective income tax rates for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 differed from the U.S. statutory rate primarily as a result of foreign interest income not subject to tax, tax credits and the foreign-derived intangible income deduction. Our effective income tax rate for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 also included the effect of enacted tax law changes in the U.K. which required a remeasurement of deferred tax balances raising the effective rate, and was favorably affected by a change in the assessment of the need for a valuation allowance related to foreign tax credit carryforwards. The effective rate for each period includes the effects of applicable state income taxes.

On August 16, 2022, the U.S. government enacted the Inflation Reduction Act (the "IRA") into law. The IRA, among other things, implements a 15% corporate alternative minimum tax based on global adjusted financial statement income and a 1% excise tax on share repurchases, which shall take effect in tax years beginning after December 31, 2022. We are in the process of evaluating the provisions of the IRA, but we do not currently believe the IRA will have a material effect on our reported results, cash flows or financial position when it becomes effective. We expect to reflect the excise tax within equity as part of the repurchase price of common stock.