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Income taxes
6 Months Ended
Mar. 28, 2020
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income taxes Income taxes

The Company’s tax provision and the resulting effective tax rate for interim periods is determined based upon its estimated annual effective tax rate, adjusted for the effect of discrete items arising in that quarter. The impact of such inclusions could result in a higher or lower effective tax rate during a particular quarter, based upon the mix and timing of actual earnings or losses versus annual projections. In each quarter, the Company updates its estimate of the annual effective tax rate, and if the estimated annual tax rate changes, a cumulative adjustment is made in that quarter.

The Company had an income tax benefit of $1.8 million and $0.2 million for the three months ended March 28, 2020 and March 30, 2019, respectively, related to foreign and U.S. federal and state income taxes. The Company had an income tax benefit of $0.2 million and an income tax expense of $2.2 million for the six months ended March 28, 2020 and March 30, 2019, respectively, related to foreign and U.S. federal and state income taxes. For the three and six months ended March 28, 2020, the Company continues to maintain a full valuation allowance on its U.S. federal, state, and certain foreign jurisdictions net deferred tax assets as it is more likely than not that those deferred tax assets will not be realized.

For the six months ended March 28, 2020, the Company's tax provision includes a discrete income tax benefit of approximately $0.6 million as a result of a favorable release of uncertain tax positions in the U.S. coinciding with the issuance of the Base Erosion and Anti-Abuse Tax (“BEAT”) Regulations. For the three and six months ended March 28, 2020, the Company excluded the U.S. and certain foreign jurisdictions from the calculation of the estimated annual effective tax rate ("AETR") as the Company anticipates an ordinary loss in these jurisdictions for which no tax benefit can be recognized. For the three and six months ended March 30, 2019, the Company calculated its U.S. income tax provision using the discrete method as though the interim year to date period was an annual period. The application of the AETR method generally required by ASC 740 was impractical for the U.S. interim tax provision in fiscal 2019 given that normal deviations in the projected pre-tax net income (loss) in the U.S. could have resulted in a disproportionate and unreliable effective tax rate under the AETR method.