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INCOME TAX
 9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2023
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
INCOME TAX INCOME TAX
For the three months ended September 30, 2023, our effective income tax rate of 14.1% was lower than the U.S. statutory rate primarily due to the favorable effects of foreign-derived intangible income deductions, tax credits and foreign interest income not subject to tax. For the nine months ended September 30, 2023, our effective income tax rate of 24.9% was higher than the U.S. statutory rate primarily as a result of a gain on the dispositions of our consumer and gaming businesses for income tax reporting purposes, while a net loss on the dispositions was recognized for financial reporting purposes, which was partially offset by the favorable effect on the rate of foreign interest income not subject to tax, tax credits and the foreign-derived intangible income deduction.

For the three months ended September 30, 2022, our effective income tax rate of 5.2% 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.

On August 16, 2022, the U.S. government enacted the Inflation Reduction Act into law, which, among other things, implemented a 15% corporate alternative minimum tax based on global adjusted financial statement income and a 1% excise tax on share repurchases effective beginning January 1, 2023. We do not expect the corporate alternative minimum tax will have a material effect on our reported results, cash flows or financial position. During the nine months ended September 30, 2023, we reflected excise taxes of $4.0 million within equity as part of the cost of common stock repurchased, net of share issuances, during the period.