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Income Taxes (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions | 3 Months Ended | 9 Months Ended | 12 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2018 | Sep. 30, 2017 | Sep. 30, 2018 | Sep. 30, 2017 | Dec. 31, 2017
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract] |  |  |  |  |
Provisional income tax expense |  |  | $ 18.3 |  | $ 315.9
Provisional income tax expense for net transition tax |  |  | 15.1 |  | 202.7
Tax expense from remeasurement of deferred tax assets |  |  | 3.2 |  | $ 113.2
Total before tax | $ 109.6 | $ 59.3 | 581.5 | $ 165.7 |
Income tax expense | $ 30.1 | $ (11.6) | $ 100.4 | $ 1.1 |
Effective tax rate (percent) | 27.50% | (19.60%) | 17.30% | 0.70% |
Discrete items Before Tax: |  |  |  |  |
Transactions-related charges | $ 6.8 | $ 48.8 | $ 14.8 | $ 78.7 |
Currency remeasurement | 0.0 | 4.6 | 3.3 | 16.1 |
Other discrete items | 32.8 | (4.1) | 104.4 | 83.4 |
Tax only discrete items | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Total discrete items | 39.6 | 49.3 | 122.5 | 178.2 |
Continuing operations, before discrete items | 149.2 | 108.6 | 704.0 | 343.9 |
Discrete Items, Tax: |  |  |  |  |
Transactions-related charges | 1.5 | 15.4 | 3.1 | 24.5 |
Currency remeasurement | 1.8 | 1.2 | 3.4 | 5.4 |
Other discrete items | 6.1 | 1.3 | 13.2 | 4.6 |
Tax only discrete items | (17.2) | 4.7 | (12.4) | 5.8 |
Total discrete items | (7.8) | 22.6 | 7.3 | 40.3 |
Continuing operations, before discrete items | $ 22.3 | $ 11.0 | $ 107.7 | $ 41.4 |
Effective tax rate percent | 14.90% | 10.10% | 15.30% | 12.00% |

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