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| Income Taxes |
Note 12. Income Taxes
The Company's income tax expense (benefit) is impacted by a number of factors, including the amount of taxable earnings generated in foreign jurisdictions with tax rates that are different than the U.S. federal statutory rate, permanent items, state tax rates and the ability to utilize various tax credits and net operating loss carryforwards. The Company's global operations, acquisition activity and specific tax attributes provide opportunities for continuous global tax planning initiatives to maximize tax credits and deductions. Comparative earnings before income taxes, income tax expense (benefit) and effective income tax rates are as follows (in thousands):
The Company’s income tax expense and effective tax rate for the three and nine months ended May 31, 2019 were impacted by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Act”), which was enacted into law on December 22, 2017. The Act includes significant changes to the U.S. corporate income tax system which reduces the U.S. federal corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21% as of January 1, 2018; shifts to a modified territorial tax regime which requires companies to pay a transition tax on earnings of certain foreign subsidiaries that were previously deferred from U.S. income tax; and creates new minimum taxes on certain foreign-sourced earnings that were previously deferred from U.S. federal tax. New provisions under the Act are effective for the Company for fiscal 2019 and include the Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income (“GILTI”) provision, the Foreign-Derived Intangible Income (“FDII”) benefit, the Base Erosion Anti-Abuse Tax (“BEAT”), the limitation on interest expense deductions and certain executive compensation, and the elimination of U.S. tax on dividends received from certain foreign subsidiaries.
The comparability of earnings before income taxes, income tax expense (benefit) and the related effective income tax rates are impacted by the Act as described above, along with impairment & divestiture charges. Results included impairment & divestiture (benefit) charges of $(10.6) million and $32.7 million ($(11.2) million and $29.4 million after tax, respectively) for the three and nine months ended May 31, 2019 and impairment & divestiture charges of $3.0 million ($12.4 million after tax) for the nine months ended May 31, 2018. Excluding the impairment & divestiture charges, the effective tax rate for the three and nine months ended May 31, 2019 was 10.9% and 25.8%, respectively. Excluding the impairment & divestiture charges, the effective tax rate for the three and nine months ended May 31, 2018 was (16.0)% and 22.1%, respectively. The income tax benefit without impairment & divestiture charges for the three months ended May 31, 2018 is significantly impacted by $13.0 million of provisional benefits associated with Act recorded in the third quarter which was partially offset with adjustments in the prior quarters of fiscal 2018, due in part, to changes to the Act during the year which results in a rate for the nine months ended May 31, 2019 and 2018 that is comparable. Additionally, both the current and prior year effective income tax rates were impacted by the proportion of earnings in foreign jurisdictions with income tax rates different than the U.S. federal income tax rate. The Company's estimated full-year fiscal 2019 and 2018 earnings before income taxes include approximately 70% of earnings from foreign jurisdictions which resulted in an effective tax rate of 3.0% to 4.0% higher than the current U.S. statutory rate of 21%.
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