Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

Income Taxes

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Income Taxes
9 Months Ended
Sep. 28, 2019
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes

Accounting Standards Codification 740 (“ASC 740”) requires companies to apply their estimated annual effective tax rate on a year-to-date basis in each interim period. These rates are derived, in part, from expected annual pre-tax income or loss. In the thirteen and thirty-nine weeks ended September 28, 2019 and the thirteen and thirty-nine weeks ended September 29, 2018, the Company applied an estimated annual effective tax rate to the interim period pre-tax loss to calculate the income tax benefit or provision.

For the thirteen and thirty-nine weeks ended September 28, 2019, the effective income tax rate was 20.6% and 2.6%, respectively. The Company recorded income tax benefit for the thirteen and thirty-nine weeks ended September 28, 2019 of $(3,775) and $(1,844), respectively. The effective tax rate for the thirteen and thirty-nine weeks ended September 28, 2019 was primarily the result of the IRC Section 163(j) interest limitation. Consistent with prior periods, the primary impact of the effective tax rate differential for the thirteen weeks ended September 28, 2019 was due to the Company recording a valuation allowance on its interest limitation carryforward. In addition to the interest limitation, the effective income tax rate differed from the federal statutory tax rate for the thirty-nine weeks ended September 28, 2019 due to certain non-deductible expenses, and state and foreign income taxes.

The effective income tax rate for the thirteen and thirty-nine weeks ended September 29, 2018 was 12.8% and (6.7)%, respectively. The Company recorded an income tax benefit for the thirteen weeks ended September 29, 2018 of $(1,565) and an income tax provision of $2,182 for the thirty-nine weeks ended September 29, 2018. The effective income tax rate for the thirteen and thirty-nine weeks ended September 29, 2018 was primarily the result of the new provisions introduced by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the "Tax Act") including the new provision on Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income ("GILTI") and the IRC Section 163(j) interest limitation. The effective income tax rate differed from the federal statutory rate in the thirteen and thirty-nine weeks ended September 29, 2018 due to recognizing no benefit on losses in jurisdictions where valuation allowances are recorded against net deferred tax assets, certain non-deductible expenses, and several aspects of the Tax Act.