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Income Taxes | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2015
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract] |
Income Taxes | The effective tax rate for income from continuing operations in the first three months of 2015 was 32.6% compared to 35.2% in the first three months of 2014. The significant differences between the U.S. federal statutory rate and the effective income tax rate for continuing operations for the three months ended March 31, 2015 and 2014 are as follows:
| Percent of Income Before Income Taxes
Three Months Ended March 31, | 2015 |  | 2014
Income tax expense at federal statutory rate | 35.0 |  |  | 35.0 |
State taxes, net of federal income tax benefit | 1.2 |  |  | 2.1 |
Unremitted earnings from foreign operations | 1.0 |  |  | 1.1 |
Income tax contingency accruals and tax settlements | 0.8 |  |  | 1.5 |
Non-deductible expenses | 0.7 |  |  | 0.2 |
Foreign tax incentives | — |  |  | (2.0 | )
Changes in estimates related to prior year tax provision | (0.2 | ) |  | 0.2 |
Valuation allowance for foreign operating loss carry-forwards | (0.4 | ) |  | (0.4 | )
Foreign rate differences | (1.4 | ) |  | (1.1 | )
Valuation allowance for capital loss carry-forwards | (1.6 | ) |  | 0.3 |
Domestic production activities deduction | (2.5 | ) |  | (1.6 | )
Other | — |  |  | (0.1 | )
Effective income tax rate for income from continuing operations | 32.6 |  |  | 35.2 |
In 2014, the Brazilian federal statutory income tax rate was a composite of 34.0% (25.0% of income tax and 9.0% of social contribution on income). Terphane Holdings, LLC’s (“Terphane”) manufacturing facility in Brazil is the beneficiary of certain income tax incentives that allow for a reduction in the statutory Brazilian federal income tax rate levied on the operating profit of its products. These incentives produced a current effective tax rate of 15.25% for Terphane Ltda. (6.25% of income tax and 9.0% social contribution on income). These incentives expired at the end of 2014. The Company anticipates that it will qualify for additional incentives that will extend beyond 2014, but the future benefit will not be recorded until the amount and extent of these incentives are more fully known. The benefit from tax incentives was $0.3 million ($0.01 per share) in the first three months of 2014. In connection with its capacity expansion project in Brazil, the Company has paid certain social taxes associated with the purchase of machinery and equipment and construction of buildings and other long-term assets. Payments of these taxes in Brazil were included in “Net cash used in investing activities” given the nature of the underlying use of cash (e.g. the purchase of property, plant and equipment). The Company can recover tax credits associated with the purchase of machinery and equipment at different points over a period up to 24 months. Once the machinery and equipment was placed into service, the Company started applying these tax credits against various other taxes due in Brazil, with their recovery being reflected as cash received from investing activities, consistent with the classification of the original payments. Income taxes from continuing operations in 2015 included a partial reversal of a valuation allowance of $0.2 million related to the expected limitations on the utilization of assumed capital losses on certain investments that were recognized in prior years. Income taxes in 2014 included the recognition of an additional valuation allowance of $40,000 related to the expected limitations on the utilization of assumed capital losses on certain investments. The Company has a valuation allowance for excess capital losses from investments and other related items of $11.1 million at March 31, 2015. Tredegar continues to evaluate opportunities to utilize these loss carryforwards prior to their expiration at various dates in the future. As events and circumstances warrant, allowances will be reversed when it is more likely than not that future taxable income will exceed deductible amounts, thereby resulting in the realization of deferred tax assets. Tredegar and its subsidiaries file income tax returns in the U.S., various states and jurisdictions outside the U.S. With few exceptions, Tredegar and its subsidiaries are no longer subject to state or non-U.S. income tax examinations by tax authorities for years before 2010.

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