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Income Taxes (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2014
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract] |
Reconciliation of income taxes at the statutory rate and income taxes shown in the Statement of Earnings | The following is a reconciliation of income taxes at the statutory rate of 35% to the provision for income taxes as shown in the Statement of Earnings (in millions):
| Three months ended March 31,
| 2014 |  | 2013
| Amount |  | % of EBT |  | Amount |  | % of EBT
Earnings before income taxes (“EBT”) | $ | 161 |  |  |  |  | $ | 175 |  |  |
Income taxes at statutory rate | $ | 56 |  |  | 35 | % |  | $ | 61 |  |  | 35 | %
Effect of: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Tax exempt interest | (5 | ) |  | (3 | %) |  | (5 | ) |  | (3 | %)
Losses of managed investment entities | — |  |  | — | % |  | 4 |  |  | 2 | %
Subsidiaries not in AFG’s tax return | 1 |  |  | 1 | % |  | 1 |  |  | — | %
Other | 2 |  |  | 1 | % |  | 1 |  |  | 1 | %
Provision for income taxes as shown in the Statement of Earnings | $ | 54 |  |  | 34 | % |  | $ | 62 |  |  | 35 | %

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of the reconciliation using percentage or dollar amounts of the reported amount of income tax expense attributable to continuing operations for the year to the amount of income tax expense that would result from applying domestic federal statutory tax rates to pretax income from continuing operations. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 740 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 12 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6907707&loc=d3e32687-109319 + Details
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