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INCOME TAXES
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2020
INCOME TAXES  
INCOME TAXES

NOTE 5.    INCOME TAXES

The following table sets out the tax expense and the effective tax rate for our income from continuing operations:

Three Months Ended September 30, 

Nine Months Ended September 30, 

    

2020

    

2019

    

2020

    

2019

Income from continuing operations, before income taxes

$

52,396

$

10,751

$

108,583

$

49,835

Provision for income taxes

$

6,783

$

3,495

$

15,293

$

3,819

Effective tax rate

12.9

%  

32.5

%  

14.1

%  

7.7

%

Our effective tax rates differ from the U.S. federal statutory rate of 21% for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively, primarily due to the benefit of earnings in foreign jurisdictions which are subject to lower tax rates, partially offset by additional global intangible low-taxed income tax (“GILTI”) in the U.S. The effective tax rate for the first nine months of 2020 was higher than the same period in 2019 primarily due to the absence of a favorable discrete tax item in 2019 related to the release of liabilities for uncertain tax positions in the first quarter of 2019. The lower effective tax rate in the three months ended September 30, 2020 was primarily due to the absence of unfavorable discrete tax items in 2019 related to the Artesyn acquisition and a change in the indefinite reinvestment assertion.