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Income Taxes
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2018
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes
Income Taxes
The Company’s income tax provision of $0.4 million and $0.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2018 and 2017, respectively, consists primarily of foreign income taxes at certain of the Company’s international entities and minimum state taxes for its U.S.-based entities. The Company’s income tax expense is significantly higher than the expected statutory rate tax expense due primarily to losses at U.S. and international subsidiaries whose net operating losses are fully reserved.
On December 22, 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Tax Act”) significantly revised the U.S. corporate income tax law, by among other things, reducing the corporate income tax rate to 21% for tax years beginning in 2018, limiting the deduction for interest expense, implementing a modified territorial system that includes a one-time transition tax on deemed repatriated earnings of foreign subsidiaries, and creating new taxes on certain foreign sourced earnings.
In 2017, in accordance with the SEC issued Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 118, Income Tax Accounting Implications of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“SAB 118”), the Company recorded provisional estimates related to the Tax Act. The Company continues to analyze the Tax Act, and in certain areas, has made reasonable estimates of the effects on its condensed consolidated financial statements and tax disclosures. The ultimate impact may differ from these provisional amounts due to, among other things, additional analysis, changes in interpretations and assumptions the Company has made, additional Internal Revenue Service guidance that may be issued and actions it may take as a result of the Tax Act. The accounting is expected to be complete when the Company’s 2017 U.S. corporate income tax return is filed in the fourth quarter of 2018.
Further, the Tax Act includes U.S. taxation on foreign intangible income, effective January 1, 2018. The FASB allows an entity to make an accounting policy election to either recognize deferred taxes for temporary basis differences expected to reverse as foreign intangible income in future years or provide for the tax expense related to the foreign intangible income as a period cost in the year it is incurred. The Company has not recorded any provisional amount for deferred taxes on the foreign intangible income because it is still collecting and analyzing the data needed to make the accounting policy election.