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Income Taxes
 9 Months Ended
Jun. 28, 2025
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes INCOME TAXES
Our effective tax rates were 64.5% and 22.9% for the third quarter of fiscal 2025 and 2024, respectively, and 36.0% and 25.9% for the first nine months of fiscal 2025 and 2024, respectively. In all periods presented, the effective tax rates were higher than the federal statutory tax rate due to state taxes. Additionally, the effective tax rates for the third quarter and first nine months of fiscal 2025 were increased by the impact of a $343 million non-deductible goodwill impairment and decreased by foreign valuation allowance releases. The effective tax rates for the third quarter and first nine months of fiscal 2024 were higher than the federal statutory tax rate due to the impact of foreign losses for which a tax benefit cannot be recognized, offset by a $9 million benefit from the remeasurement of deferred income taxes, primarily due to legislation decreasing state tax rates enacted in the third quarter of fiscal 2024.
Unrecognized tax benefits were $159 million and $151 million at June 28, 2025 and September 28, 2024, respectively.
On July 4, 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act ("OBBBA") was enacted into law. The OBBBA makes permanent key elements of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, including 100% bonus depreciation, domestic research cost expensing and the business interest expense limitation. The legislation has multiple effective dates, with certain provisions effective in 2025 and others implemented through 2027. We are in the process of evaluating the impact of the OBBBA on our consolidated financial statements and will reflect the changes in our annual period ending September 27, 2025, as required by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States.
In December 2021, we received an assessment from the Mexican tax authorities related to the 2015 sale of our direct and indirect equity interests in subsidiaries which held our Mexico operations. The assessment totals approximately $485 million (9.2 billion Mexican pesos), which includes tax, inflation adjustment, interest and penalties as of June 28, 2025. Additionally, the purchaser in the transaction also received an assessment from the Mexican tax authorities related to the sale of the indirect equity interests, which was affirmed in January 2025 by a circuit court in Mexico, but remains subject to potential further judicial review under a petition filed by the purchaser. The transaction agreement contains certain mutual indemnification provisions, and both parties have provided notice of indemnification claims to the other party. The purchaser has not indicated the total amount it seeks in indemnification from us in its notice of indemnification claim. We believe any final assessment levied against and collected from the purchaser should prohibit potential assessment against us related to the sale of these same indirect equity interests because the Mexican tax authorities cannot collect twice for the same alleged underlying tax liability. We do not reasonably expect that the total amount sought in indemnification could exceed our assessment total at this time. In addition, we further believe the assertions made in the assessment against us with respect to the sale of both our direct and indirect equity interests have no merit and will defend our positions through the Mexican administrative appeal process and litigation, if necessary. Based on our analysis of our assessment in accordance with FASB guidance related to unrecognized tax benefits, we have not recorded a liability related to our assessment. Additionally, we have not recorded a liability for the indemnification claim from the purchaser, because we do not believe a loss is probable, or that a range of possible loss, if any, is reasonably estimable at this time, because we believe we have valid and meritorious defenses against the claim.