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Note 6 - Income Taxes
9 Months Ended
Nov. 03, 2018
Notes to Financial Statements  
Income Tax Disclosure [Text Block]
6.
Income Taxes
 
The effective tax rate was
39.3%
and
36.8%
for the
thirteen
and
thirty-nine
weeks ended
November 3, 2018,
respectively, compared to
34.8%
and
61.9%
for the
thirteen
and
thirty-nine
weeks ended
October 28, 2017
, respectively. The 
2018
 effective tax differed from the statutory rate of
21%
primarily due to the jurisdictional mix of earnings. The fiscal
2017
 effective tax rate differed from the statutory rate of
34%
primarily due to the effect of discrete tax items.  
 
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 the maximum 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 fiscal
2017
but it does
not
anticipate a significant charge for the
one
-time transition tax on the deemed repatriation of foreign earnings. 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 charge due to GILTI or BEAT to be significant. In accordance with SAB
118
and ASU
2018
-
05,
the financial reporting impact of the Tax Reform Act is expected to be completed in the
fourth
quarter of fiscal
2018.