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INCOME TAXES
9 Months Ended
Sep. 29, 2018
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
INCOME TAXES
INCOME TAXES
As of September 29, 2018, the Company had gross unrecognized income tax benefits of approximately $15.3 million, of which $12.9 million, if ultimately recognized, may affect the Company's effective income tax rate in the periods settled. The Company has recorded tax positions for which the ultimate deductibility is more likely than not, but for which there is uncertainty about the timing of such deductions.  
Included in the reserves for unrecognized tax benefits at September 29, 2018 were approximately $2.0 million of reserves for which the statute of limitations is expected to expire within the next fiscal year. If these tax benefits are ultimately recognized, such recognition, net of federal income taxes, may affect the annual effective income tax rate for fiscal 2018 or fiscal 2019 along with the effective income tax rate in the quarter in which the benefits are recognized. 
The Company recognizes interest related to unrecognized tax benefits as a component of interest expense and recognizes penalties related to unrecognized income tax benefits as a component of income tax expense. During the fiscal quarter ended September 29, 2018, interest expense recorded on uncertain tax positions was approximately $0.6 million, while the interest expense recorded for the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2017 was not material. The Company had approximately $1.9 million, $1.0 million, and $1.1 million of interest accrued on uncertain tax positions as of September 29, 2018, December 30, 2017, and September 30, 2017, respectively.
For the full fiscal year 2018, the Company estimates that its consolidated effective income tax rate will be approximately 22.0%.
U.S. Tax Reform
The provision for income taxes recognized by the Company during the fiscal fourth quarter of 2017 reflected certain provisional estimates for the accounting of the December 22, 2017 enactment of income tax law changes commonly known as the U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (the "2017 Tax Act"). The provisional accounting for the 2017 Tax Act is permitted by SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 118, Income Tax Accounting Implications of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, issued in late December 2017. Subsequent adjustments, if any, to the provisional accounting estimates must be reflected in income tax provisions/benefits during one or more periods in fiscal 2018.
During the fourth quarter of fiscal 2017, the Company recorded a provisional tax expense estimate for the one-time transition tax liability for all of its foreign subsidiaries, resulting in an increase in income tax expense of approximately $10.4 million related to foreign earnings. The one-time transition tax is based on the Company's total post-1986 earnings and profits ("E&P") that the Company previously deferred from United States income taxes. During the third quarter of fiscal 2018, the Company completed its calculation of the one-time transition tax for all of its foreign subsidiaries. The adjustments made to this provisional tax expense estimate during the first three quarters of fiscal 2018 were not material. No additional income taxes have been provided for any remaining undistributed foreign earnings not subject to the transition tax, or any additional outside basis difference inherent in these entities, as these amounts continue to be indefinitely reinvested in foreign operations. Determining the amount of unrecognized deferred tax liability related to any remaining undistributed foreign earnings not subject to the transition tax and additional outside basis difference in these entities (i.e., basis difference in excess of that subject to the one-time transition tax) is not practicable, but the related cumulative temporary difference as of December 30, 2017 and September 29, 2018 would not result in a material incremental deferred tax liability.