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Commitments and Contingencies
9 Months Ended
Dec. 29, 2018
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
Commitments and Contingencies
Commitments and Contingencies
Lease Obligations
During the first quarter of Fiscal 2019, the Company entered into a 16-year lease with optional renewal periods for a new corporate office in New Jersey, which it expects to take possession of during its fiscal year 2020. Additionally, during the third quarter of Fiscal 2019, the Company amended an existing lease agreement for a corporate office in New York City, whereby it expanded the square footage to be leased and extended the lease term through December 31, 2029, with optional renewal periods. The following table summarizes the Company's future minimum rental payments relating to these lease agreements:
 
 
Minimum
Lease Payments(a)
 
 
(millions)
Remainder of Fiscal 2019
 
$

Fiscal 2020
 
10.2

Fiscal 2021
 
19.4

Fiscal 2022
 
27.5

Fiscal 2023
 
27.7

Fiscal 2024 and thereafter
 
261.8

Total minimum rental payments
 
$
346.6

 
(a) 
Excludes future minimum commitments related to the original lease term and space for the corporate office in New York City, which were previously included in the minimum lease payments table in Note 14 of the Fiscal 2018 10-K.
Customs Audit
In September 2014, one of the Company's international subsidiaries received a pre-assessment notice from the relevant customs officials concerning the method used to determine the dutiable value of imported inventory. The notice communicated the customs officials' assertion that the Company should have applied an alternative duty method, which could have resulted in up to $46 million in incremental duty and non-creditable value-added tax, including $11 million in interest and penalties. The Company believed that the alternative duty method claimed by the customs officials was not applicable to the Company's facts and circumstances and contested their asserted methodology.
In October 2014, the Company filed an appeal of the pre-assessment notice in accordance with the standard procedures established by the relevant customs authorities. In response to the filing of the Company's appeal of the pre-assessment notice, the review committee instructed the customs officials to reconsider their assertion of the alternative duty method and conduct a re-audit to evaluate the facts and circumstances noted in the pre-assessment notice. In December 2015, the Company received the results of the re-audit conducted and a customs audit assessment notice in the amount of $34.1 million, which the Company recorded within restructuring and other charges in its consolidated statements of operations during the third quarter of Fiscal 2016. Although the Company disagreed with the assessment notice, in order to secure the Company's rights, the Company was required to pay the assessment amount and then subsequently file an appeal with the customs authorities.
In October 2017, the tax tribunal presiding over the Company's appeal instructed the customs officials to reconsider their assertions under the alternative duty method and conduct a second re-audit to evaluate the facts and circumstances noted in the pre-assessment notice. In March 2018, the Company received the results of the second re-audit conducted and a related net refund in the amount of $15.6 million. Additionally, in March 2018 and May 2018, the Company filed voluntary disclosure requests to the relevant customs authorities for certain post-audit periods and made related payments of $40.6 million and $7.1 million, respectively, in order to secure its rights to recover value-added tax of $14.8 million and $3.3 million, respectively. In connection with the re-audit refund received and the non-tax portion of the voluntary disclosure payment made, the Company recorded net charges of $10.2 million and $3.8 million, respectively, within restructuring and other charges in its consolidated statements of operations during the fourth quarter of Fiscal 2018 and first quarter of Fiscal 2019, respectively.
Although the Company believes its original filing position was appropriate, in June 2018, the Company decided to resolve the dispute and not further appeal the re-audit decision within the courts for the periods covered by the re-audit in order to avoid incurring additional management time, costs, and uncertainty associated with litigation, as the customs officials' revised methodology results in an incremental annual duty charge that is not material to the Company.
Other Matters
The Company is involved, from time to time, in litigation, other legal claims, and proceedings involving matters associated with or incidental to its business, including, among other things, matters involving credit card fraud, trademark and other intellectual property, licensing, importation and exportation of its products, taxation, unclaimed property, and employee relations. The Company believes at present that the resolution of currently pending matters will not individually or in the aggregate have a material adverse effect on its consolidated financial statements. However, the Company's assessment of any current litigation or other legal claims could potentially change in light of the discovery of facts not presently known or determinations by judges, juries, or other finders of fact which are not in accord with management's evaluation of the possible liability or outcome of such litigation or claims.
In the normal course of business, the Company enters into agreements that provide general indemnifications. The Company has not made any significant indemnification payments under such agreements in the past, and does not currently anticipate incurring any material indemnification payments.