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Income Taxes
9 Months Ended
Jan. 31, 2018
Income Taxes

11. Income Taxes

The current fiscal year effective tax rate was significantly impacted by the December 22, 2017 enactment of the Tax Act into law in the United States. The most significant impacts of the Tax Act on the Company include (1) a reduction in the U.S. corporate federal statutory income tax rate from 35.0% to 21.0% effective January 1, 2018, and (2) a one-time tax on accumulated foreign earnings (the “Transition Tax”), which is applicable at a rate of 15.5% on cash and other specified assets and 8% on other residual earnings. Because our fiscal year-end is April 30, 2018, the Company’s fiscal 2018 statutory federal tax rate is 30.4%.

As a result of the enactment of the Tax Act, the Company recorded a provisional tax charge of $16.3 million for the Transition Tax and a provisional tax benefit of $5.8 million from the remeasurement of our U.S. federal deferred tax assets and liabilities at the rate at which we expect these deferred tax balances to be realized (30.4% in fiscal 2018 and 21.0% thereafter). The amounts recorded as a result of the enactment of the Tax Act, specifically the impact of the Transition Tax and the remeasurement of deferred tax balances, are provisional estimates. Additional information and analysis are required to finalize the impact that the Tax Act will have on our financial results, including the final determination of foreign cash and other specified assets at the end of fiscal 2018, refinement of the computation of foreign subsidiaries earnings and the final determination of deferred tax balances subject to remeasurement. Additionally, anticipated future guidance from the Internal Revenue Service, state tax agencies, the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission could result in changes to these provisional amounts. The Company will continue to appropriately refine these amounts within the measurement period allowed by Staff Accounting Bulletin (“SAB”) No.118, which will be completed no later than December 22, 2018.