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Income Taxes
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2018
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes
INCOME TAXES
The Company maintains management and operational activities in overseas subsidiaries, and its foreign earnings are taxed at rates that are different than the U.S. federal statutory income tax rate. A significant amount of the Company’s earnings are generated by its Canadian, European and Asian subsidiaries and, to a lesser extent, in jurisdictions that are not subject to income tax.
On December 22, 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”) was enacted which significantly changes U.S. corporate income tax laws by, among other things, reducing the U.S. corporate income tax rate to 21% starting in 2018 and creating a territorial tax system with a one-time mandatory tax on previously deferred foreign earnings of U.S. subsidiaries. The amounts recorded in fiscal 2017 due to the enactment of the TCJA continue to be the Company's best estimate based on the current information and guidance available at this time, and represent provisional estimates of the transition tax, remeasurement of deferred tax accounts and deferred tax liability on future dividends associated with the TCJA, and as allowed under SAB 118, will be finalized on or before the due date of the U.S. corporate tax return in October 2018.
As a result of the TCJA, the Company now intends to repatriate cash held in foreign jurisdictions and has recorded a deferred tax liability related to estimated state taxes and foreign withholding taxes on the future dividends received in the U.S. from the foreign subsidiaries. The Company intends to permanently reinvest all non-cash undistributed earnings outside of the U.S. However, if these non-cash undistributed earnings were repatriated, the Company would be required to accrue and pay applicable U.S. taxes and withholding taxes payable to various countries. It is not practicable to estimate the amount of the deferred tax liability associated with these non-cash unremitted earnings due to the complexity of the hypothetical calculation.
The Company’s effective tax rates for the quarters ended March 31, 2018 and April 1, 2017 were 15.1% and 20.7%, respectively. The lower effective tax rate in the current year period reflects a reduction in U.S. income tax expense due to a lower U.S. corporate tax rate following enactment of the TCJA and favorable discrete items.
The Company is subject to periodic audits by domestic and foreign tax authorities. Currently, the Company is undergoing routine periodic audits in both domestic and foreign tax jurisdictions. It is reasonably possible that the amounts of unrecognized tax benefits could change in the next 12 months as a result of the audits; however, any payment of tax is not expected to be significant to the consolidated condensed financial statements.
The Company is no longer subject to U.S. federal, state and local or non-U.S. income tax examinations by tax authorities for years before 2013 in the majority of tax jurisdictions.