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Commitments and Contingencies (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2018
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract] |
Schedule of future minimum rental payments for operating leases | As of March 31, 2018, future minimum rental payments under noncancelable operating leases with lease terms in excess of one year were as follows:
|  | Minimum Operating Lease Payments(a)
|  | (millions)
Fiscal 2019 |  | $ | 343.8 |
Fiscal 2020 |  | 318.1 |
Fiscal 2021 |  | 262.6 |
Fiscal 2022 |  | 220.1 |
Fiscal 2023 |  | 199.1 |
Fiscal 2024 and thereafter |  | 504.5 |
Total net minimum rental payments |  | $ | 1,848.2 |
(a) | Net of sublease income, which is not significant in any period.
Schedule of future minimum lease payments for capital leases | As of March 31, 2018, future minimum rental payments under noncancelable capital leases, including build-to-suit leases, with lease terms in excess of one year were as follows:
|  | Minimum Capital Lease Payments(a)(b)
|  | (millions)
Fiscal 2019 |  | $ | 29.6 |
Fiscal 2020 |  | 31.9 |
Fiscal 2021 |  | 30.5 |
Fiscal 2022 |  | 29.4 |
Fiscal 2023 |  | 28.9 |
Fiscal 2024 and thereafter |  | 78.5 |
Total net minimum rental payments |  | 228.8 |
Less: amount representing interest |  | (73.4 | )
Present value of net minimum rental payments |  | $ | 155.4 |
(a) | Net of sublease income, which is not significant in any period.
(b) | Includes lease payments related to the Company's build-to-suit lease agreement for its former Polo store on Fifth Avenue in New York City, which was closed during the first quarter of Fiscal 2018. The total remaining commitment related to this lease was $135.1 million as of March 31, 2018, comprised of a $41.2 million operating lease obligation related to the land portion of the lease (included in the minimum operating lease payments table above) and a $93.9 million obligation related to the building portion of the lease (included in this minimum capital lease payments table).
US Tax Reform [Member] |
Other Commitments [Line Items] |
Mandatory transition tax payments | In connection with the TCJA's provision that subjects previously deferred foreign earnings to a one-time mandatory transition tax, the Company recorded net charges of $209.3 million within its income tax provision during Fiscal 2018 on a provisional basis (as described in Note 10). The related income tax payable obligation of $147.8 million, which is net of foreign tax credits and other federal income tax activity of $61.5 million that the Company expects to utilize to partially reduce this tax obligation, is expected to be paid over an eight-year period as follows:
|  | Mandatory Transition Tax Payments(a)
|  | (millions)
Fiscal 2019 |  | $ | 23.0 |
Fiscal 2020 |  | 11.6 |
Fiscal 2021 |  | 11.6 |
Fiscal 2022 |  | 11.6 |
Fiscal 2023 |  | 19.2 |
Fiscal 2024 and thereafter |  | 70.8 |
Total mandatory transition tax payments |  | $ | 147.8 |
(a) | Included within current and non-current income tax payable in the consolidated balance sheets based upon the estimating timing of payments.

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