Income Taxes	6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2018
Income Taxes	Note 7 — Income Taxes The Company’s income tax expense of $2.1 million for the three months ended June 30, 2018 reflects an effective tax rate of (12.7%). The Company’s income tax expense of $0.3 million for the three months ended June 30, 2017 reflects an effective tax rate of (1.9%). The majority of the tax expense for the three months ended June 30, 2018 relates to foreign income taxes partially offset by discrete items. The majority of the tax expense for the three months ended June 30, 2017 relate to foreign income taxes. The Company’s income tax benefit of $0.2 million for the six months ended June 30, 2018 reflects an effective tax rate of 0.4%. The Company’s income tax benefit of $28,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2017 reflects an effective tax rate of 0.1%. The majority of the tax benefit for the six months ended June 30, 2018 relates to favorable discrete items and foreign income tax benefit. The majority of the tax benefit for the six months ended June 30, 2017 relates to favorable discrete items partially offset by foreign income taxes. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was enacted on December 22, 2017. The Act reduces the U.S. federal corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21%, and requires companies to pay a one-time transition tax on earnings of certain foreign subsidiaries that were previously tax deferred and creates new taxes on certain foreign sourced earnings. Due to the timing of the enactment and the complexity involved in applying the provisions of the Act, we made reasonable estimates of the effects and recorded provisional amounts in our financial statements as of December 31, 2017. As we collect and prepare necessary data, and interpret the Act and any additional guidance issued by the U.S. Treasury Department, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and other standard-setting bodies, we may make adjustments to the provisional amounts. Those adjustments may materially affect our provision for income taxes and effective tax rate in the period in which the adjustments are made. No adjustments were made in the second quarter of 2018 as the provisional amounts as of December 31, 2017 remain reasonable. We will continue to make and refine our calculations as additional analysis is completed in 2018. The Act subjects a U.S. shareholder to tax on Global intangible low-taxed income (GILTI) earned by certain foreign subsidiaries. The FASB Staff Q&A, Topic 740, No. 5, Accounting for Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income, states that an entity can make an accounting policy election to either recognize deferred taxes for temporary basis differences expected to reverse as GILTI in future years or provide for the tax expense related to GILTI in the year the tax is incurred as a period expense only. Given the complexity of the GILTI provisions, we are still evaluating the effects of the GILTI provisions and have not yet determined our accounting policy. At June 30, 2018, because we are still evaluating the GILTI provisions and our analysis of future taxable income that is subject to GILTI, we have included GILTI related to current-year operations only. The GILTI provision does not impact the 2018 second quarter tax expense due to the fully valued tax attributes carryforward.

Note 7 — Income Taxes

The Company’s income tax expense of $2.1 million for the three months ended June 30, 2018 reflects an effective tax rate of (12.7%). The Company’s income tax expense of $0.3 million for the three months ended June 30, 2017 reflects an effective tax rate of (1.9%). The majority of the tax expense for the three months ended June 30, 2018 relates to foreign income taxes partially offset by discrete items. The majority of the tax expense for the three months ended June 30, 2017 relate to foreign income taxes.

The Company’s income tax benefit of $0.2 million for the six months ended June 30, 2018 reflects an effective tax rate of 0.4%. The Company’s income tax benefit of $28,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2017 reflects an effective tax rate of 0.1%. The majority of the tax benefit for the six months ended June 30, 2018 relates to favorable discrete items and foreign income tax benefit. The majority of the tax benefit for the six months ended June 30, 2017 relates to favorable discrete items partially offset by foreign income taxes.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was enacted on December 22, 2017. The Act reduces the U.S. federal corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21%, and requires companies to pay a one-time transition tax on earnings of certain foreign subsidiaries that were previously tax deferred and creates new taxes on certain foreign sourced earnings. Due to the timing of the enactment and the complexity involved in applying the provisions of the Act, we made reasonable estimates of the effects and recorded provisional amounts in our financial statements as of December 31, 2017. As we collect and prepare necessary data, and interpret the Act and any additional guidance issued by the U.S. Treasury Department, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and other standard-setting bodies, we may make adjustments to the provisional amounts. Those adjustments may materially affect our provision for income taxes and effective tax rate in the period in which the adjustments are made. No adjustments were made in the second quarter of 2018 as the provisional amounts as of December 31, 2017 remain reasonable. We will continue to make and refine our calculations as additional analysis is completed in 2018.

The Act subjects a U.S. shareholder to tax on Global intangible low-taxed income (GILTI) earned by certain foreign subsidiaries. The FASB Staff Q&A, Topic 740, No. 5, Accounting for Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income, states that an entity can make an accounting policy election to either recognize deferred taxes for temporary basis differences expected to reverse as GILTI in future years or provide for the tax expense related to GILTI in the year the tax is incurred as a period expense only. Given the complexity of the GILTI provisions, we are still evaluating the effects of the GILTI provisions and have not yet determined our accounting policy. At June 30, 2018, because we are still evaluating the GILTI provisions and our analysis of future taxable income that is subject to GILTI, we have included GILTI related to current-year operations only. The GILTI provision does not impact the 2018 second quarter tax expense due to the fully valued tax attributes carryforward.