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Income Taxes
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2019
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes
(11) Income Taxes

For the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2019, the Company recorded expense of $2,010 and $5,793, resulting in effective tax rates of 13.6% and 9.8%, respectively. For the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2018, the Company recorded expense of $1,593 and $6,086, resulting in effective tax rates of 16.0% and 17.4%, respectively. The difference between the statutory rate and the effective tax rate in 2019 is mainly driven by the Company recording a valuation allowance on one of its foreign subsidiaries in China, withholding tax expense, release of a liability for uncertain tax positions related to a German tax audit and expiration of statute of limitations for U.S. federal income tax purposes, foreign rate differential between the U.S. tax rate and foreign tax rates, as well as the impact of the change in valuation allowances that the Company has recorded in the U.S. and other foreign jurisdictions. In 2018 the impact was mainly driven by the change in valuation allowance that the Company has recorded in the U.S. and other foreign jurisdictions, foreign rate differential between the U.S. tax rate and foreign tax rates, and the completion of an audit in France.

Due to the one time transition tax, the majority of the Company’s previously unremitted earnings have now been subjected to U.S. federal income tax, although, other additional taxes such as withholding tax could be applicable. The Company continues to assert that its foreign earnings are indefinitely reinvested in our overseas operations. As such, it has not provided for any additional taxes on approximately $106,933 of unremitted earnings. The Company estimates the unrecognized deferred tax liability related to these earnings is approximately $16,000.
Tax years 2013 and 2014 remain subject to examination by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") for certain credit carryforwards, while tax years 2015 through 2017 remain open to examination by the IRS. State income tax returns are generally subject to examination for a period of three to four years after filing the respective tax returns. The Company files income tax returns (which are open to examination beginning in the year shown in parentheses) in Australia (2015), Belgium (2016), Brazil (2013), China (2016), France (2016), Germany (2015), India (2014), Israel (2014), Italy (2013), Japan (2014), Korea (2013), Mexico (2013), Netherlands (2014), Switzerland (2013), the United Kingdom (2017) and Uruguay (2014).