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INCOME TAXES
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9 Months Ended |
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Sep. 29, 2013
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| Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract] | |
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NOTE 6. INCOME TAXES
Our effective tax rate for the year is expected to approximate 28.5 percent, excluding any one-time items that may arise. Our tax rate is generally less than the 35 percent U.S. statutory income tax rate primarily due to lower tax rates on foreign income and research tax credits. The tax rates for the three and nine month periods ended September 29, 2013, were 29.2 percent and 28.3 percent, respectively. These tax rates include a $7 million discrete net tax expense for the third quarter tax adjustments: $4 million expense attributable to prior year tax return true-up adjustments, $1 million benefit related to release of prior year tax reserves and a discrete tax charge for $4 million related to a third quarter enactment of U.K. tax law changes. In addition, the nine month tax rate includes a discrete tax benefit in the first quarter of 2013 of $28 million attributable to the reinstatement of the research credit back to 2012, as well as a discrete tax expense in the first quarter of 2013 of $17 million, which primarily relates to the write-off of a deferred tax asset deemed unrecoverable. On January 2, 2013, the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 was signed into law and reinstated the research tax credit. As tax law changes are accounted for in the period of enactment, we recognized the discrete tax benefit in the first quarter of 2013.
Our tax rates for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2012, were 24.1 percent and 25.5 percent, respectively. These tax rates include a $16 million tax benefit for third quarter discrete tax adjustments, $6 million of which related to a dividend distribution of accumulated foreign income earned in prior years. These discrete tax adjustments also included a discrete tax benefit of $13 million for prior year tax return true-up adjustments and a discrete tax charge of $3 million related to the third quarter enactment of U.K. tax law changes. The increase in the 2013 effective tax rates compared to 2012 is primarily due to unfavorable changes in the pre-tax mix of income taxed in higher rate jurisdictions and discrete tax items.
In September 2013, the Internal Revenue Service released final tangible personal property regulations regarding the deduction and capitalization of expenditures related to tangible property. The new rules will become effective for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2014. While we are still finalizing our analysis, we do not believe that these regulations will have a material impact on our Consolidated Financial Statements.
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