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Income Taxes
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2014
Income Taxes [Abstract]  
Income Taxes

(13)  Income Taxes

 

The Company’s effective tax rates were 24.0% and 37.5% for the quarter and six months ended June 30, 2014, respectively, compared to 33.9% and 29.5% for the quarter and six months ended June 30, 2013.

 

The Company has not provided for any taxes on the unremitted earnings of its foreign subsidiaries, as the Company intends to permanently reinvest all such earnings outside of the U.S. We believe a calculation of the deferred tax liability associated with these undistributed earnings is impracticable.

Tax years 2010 to 2013 are subject to examination by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. The Company has utilized U.S. loss carryforwards causing the years 1997 to 2007 to be subject to examination. The Company files income tax returns (which are open to examination beginning in the year shown in parentheses) in France (2011), Germany (2011), Japan (2007), Italy (2009), Switzerland (2008), the United Kingdom (2009), the Netherlands (2007), Australia (2009), Korea (2008), India (2012), and China (2013).