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Note 6 - Income Taxes
3 Months Ended
May 05, 2018
Notes to Financial Statements  
Income Tax Disclosure [Text Block]
6
. Income Taxes
 
For the
thirteen
weeks ended
May 5, 2018,
the effective tax rate was
45.2%
compared to
40.6%
for the
thirteen
weeks ended 
April 29, 2017.
The fiscal
2018
 effective tax differed from the statutory rate of
21%
primarily due to a 
$0.1
million negative tax impact related to vested equity awards. The fiscal
2017
 effective tax rate differed from the statutory rate of
34%
primarily due to a 
$0.2
million negative tax impact related to vested equity awards. For the
five
weeks ended
February 3, 2018,
the income tax provision was a benefit of
$0.2
million with an effective tax rate of 
17.8%
compared to an income tax benefit of
$0.4
million with an effective tax rate of
35.8%
for the
four
weeks ended
January 28, 2017 (
See Note
12
—Transition Period Financial Information for additional information). 
 
On
December 22, 2017,
the Tax Cuts and Job Act ("Tax Reform Act") was enacted, which significantly changes U.S. tax law effective by, among other things, lowering corporate income tax statutory rate from
35%
to
21%,
implementing a territorial tax system and imposing a repatriation tax on deemed repatriated earnings of foreign subsidiaries. The Tax Reform Act was effective as of
January 1, 2018.
The Company recorded a provisional tax charge of
$1.4
million for the re-measurement of its U.S. net deferred tax assets in
Q4
of
fiscal 2017
but it does
not
anticipate a significant cost for the
one
-time transition tax on the deemed repatriation. The Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income ("GILTI") provisions of the Tax Reform Act require a company to include in its U.S. income tax return foreign subsidiary earnings in excess of an allowable return on the foreign subsidiary’s tangible assets. The Base-Eroding Anti-abuse Tax (“BEAT”) provisions of the Tax Reform Act assess tax on certain payments made by a U.S. company to a related foreign company. The Company does
not
expect the incremental tax cost due to GILTI or BEAT to be significant. In accordance with SAB
118
the financial reporting impact of the Tax Reform Act is expected to be completed in the
fourth
quarter of fiscal
2018.