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Income Taxes
9 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2018
Income Taxes [Abstract]  
Income Taxes
Note 8: Income Taxes

The Company’s effective tax rate for the three months ended December 31, 2018 and 2017 was 32.0 percent and 482.2 percent, respectively.  The Company’s effective tax rate for the nine months ended December 31, 2018 and 2017 was (13.2) percent and 86.6 percent, respectively.  The effective tax rates for the fiscal 2019 periods are lower than in the prior year, primarily due to $35.7 million of income tax charges recorded during the third quarter of fiscal 2018 related to the Company’s accounting for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Tax Act”).  The Company completed its accounting for the Tax Act during fiscal 2019 and, as a result, recorded adjustments to the provisional amounts that were recorded in prior periods.  These adjustments resulted in income tax charges totaling $3.1 million during the third quarter of fiscal 2019 and tax benefits totaling $7.7 million during the first nine months of fiscal 2019.  Other factors that impacted the Company’s effective tax rate for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2018, as compared with the prior-year periods, included fiscal 2019 income tax benefits from the recognition of tax assets for both foreign tax credits and a manufacturing deduction in the United States, fiscal 2018 income tax benefits from the recognition of a development tax credit in Hungary, changes in the valuation allowances related to certain foreign jurisdictions, and changes in the mix of foreign and domestic earnings.  The recognition of tax assets resulted in tax benefits of $2.5 million and $17.0 million in the three and nine months ended December 31, 2018, respectively.  The Hungarian development tax credit resulted in tax benefits of $2.2 million and $7.9 million in the three and nine months ended December 31, 2017, respectively.

On December 22, 2017, the U.S. government enacted comprehensive tax legislation commonly referred to as the Tax Act.  Shortly after the Tax Act was enacted, the SEC issued accounting guidance which provided a one-year measurement period during which a company could complete its accounting for the impacts of the Tax Act.  To the extent a company’s accounting for certain income tax effects of the Tax Act was incomplete, the company could determine a reasonable estimate for those effects and record a provisional estimate in its financial statements.  If a company could not determine a provisional estimate to be included in the financial statements, it was to continue applying the provisions of the tax laws that were in effect immediately prior to the Tax Act being enacted.  The Company completed its accounting for the Tax Act during the third quarter of fiscal 2019.

During fiscal 2018, the Company recorded provisional discrete tax charges totaling $38.0 million related to the Tax Act.  The Company adjusted its U.S. deferred tax assets by $19.0 million due to the reduction in the U.S. federal corporate tax rate.  This net reduction in deferred tax assets also included the estimated impact on the Company’s net state deferred tax assets.  In addition, the Company recorded a $19.0 million charge for the transition tax required under the Tax Act.

During fiscal 2019, the Company completed its accounting for the Tax Act, which resulted in an income tax benefit totaling $7.7 million.  The Company determined it will utilize its deferred tax attributes against the transition tax and finalized its fiscal 2018 U.S. federal income tax return.  As a result, the Company decreased the provisional charge recorded for the reduction in the U.S. federal corporate tax rate by $9.3 million, since more deferred tax assets were utilized to offset taxable income at a higher fiscal 2018 U.S. federal corporate tax rate.  The Company also decreased the transition tax liability to $18.9 million, a reduction of $0.1 million.  In addition, the Company recorded a charge of $1.7 million for a reduction to state deferred tax assets.

Also during fiscal 2019, the Company amended its tax returns from previous fiscal years to recognize foreign tax credits that are expected to be realized based on future sources of income.  As a result, the Company recorded income tax benefits totaling $0.9 million and $14.5 million in the three and nine months ended December 31, 2018, respectively.

The Company has elected to record the tax effects of the global intangible low taxed income (“GILTI”) provision as a period expense in the applicable tax year.

Previously, the Company’s practice and intention was to reinvest, with certain insignificant exceptions, the earnings of its non-U.S. subsidiaries outside of the U.S.  As a result, the Company did not record U.S. deferred income taxes or foreign withholding taxes for these earnings.  The Company has not changed its practices or intentions with respect to these earnings.

As of December 31, 2018, valuation allowances against deferred tax assets in certain foreign jurisdictions totaled $33.9 million and valuation allowances against certain U.S. deferred tax assets totaled $7.0 million, as it is more likely than not these assets will not be realized based upon historical financial results.  During the first quarter of fiscal 2019, the Company recorded a benefit of $2.0 million related to the reversal of a valuation allowance for deferred tax assets in a foreign jurisdiction after determining it was more likely than not the deferred tax assets would be realized in the future.  During the second quarter of fiscal 2019, the Company recorded a valuation allowance of $1.0 million on certain deferred tax assets in a foreign jurisdiction after determining it was more likely than not the deferred tax assets would not be realized.  The Company will continue to provide a valuation allowance against its net deferred tax assets in each of the applicable jurisdictions until the need for a valuation allowance is eliminated.  The need for a valuation allowance is eliminated when the Company determines it is more likely than not the deferred tax assets will be realized.

Accounting policies for interim reporting require the Company to adjust its effective tax rate each quarter to be consistent with its estimated annual effective tax rate.  Under this methodology, the Company applies its estimated annual income tax rate to its year-to-date ordinary earnings to derive its income tax provision each quarter.  The Company records the tax impacts of certain significant, unusual or infrequently occurring items in the period in which they occur.  The Company excluded the impact of its operations in certain foreign locations from the overall effective tax rate methodology and recorded them discretely based upon year-to-date results because the Company anticipates net operating losses for the full fiscal year in these jurisdictions.  The Company does not anticipate a significant change in unrecognized tax benefits during the remainder of fiscal 2019.