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Income Taxes Income Taxes (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2012

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

Schedule of Components of Income Tax Expense (Benefit)

	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2012				2011
Income tax benefit	$	(6	)		$	(83	)	(1)
Imputed tax rate	40		%		22		%

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(1) Represents approximately $76 million related to the election to consolidate our CCFC and Calpine groups for federal income tax reporting purposes and $34 million related to intraperiod tax allocation tax benefits offset by approximately $27 million of state and foreign tax expense.

Schedule of Income Tax Expense (Benefit) Intraperiod Tax Allocation

The following table details the effects of our intraperiod tax allocations for the three months ended March 31, 2012 and 2011 (in millions).

	2012				2011
Intraperiod tax allocation expense (benefit) included in continuing operations	$	2			$	(34	)
Intraperiod tax allocation expense (benefit) included in OCI	$	(2	)		$	34

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Tabular disclosure of the components of income tax expense attributable to continuing operations for each year presented including, but not limited to: current tax expense (benefit), deferred tax expense (benefit), investment tax credits, government grants, the benefits of operating loss carryforwards, tax expense that results from allocating certain tax benefits either directly to contributed capital or to reduce goodwill or other noncurrent intangible assets of an acquired entity, adjustments of a deferred tax liability or asset for enacted changes in tax laws or rates or a change in the tax status of the entity, and adjustments of the beginning-of-the-year balances of a valuation allowance because of a change in circumstances that causes a change in judgment about the realizability of the related deferred tax asset in future years.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Topic 740

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