Income Taxes |
6 Months Ended |
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Mar. 31, 2019 | |
| Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract] | |
| Income Taxes |
Income Taxes
On December 22, 2017, the U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Act”) was signed into law. The Act contains significant changes to corporate taxes, including a permanent reduction of the U.S. corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% effective January 1, 2018. The Company’s statutory rate for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2018 was 24.5%, based on a fiscal year blended rate calculation. The 21% U.S. corporate tax rate will apply to the fiscal years ending September 30, 2019 and each year thereafter.
The Act required a one-time remeasurement of certain tax related assets and liabilities. During the first quarter ended December 31, 2017, the Company made certain estimates related to the impact of the Act including the remeasurement of deferred taxes at the new expected tax rate and a revised effective tax rate for the year ended September 30, 2018. The amounts recorded in the six months ended March 31, 2018 for the remeasurement of deferred taxes principally relate to the reduction in the U.S. corporate income tax rate. During the second quarter ended March 31, 2018, the Company made certain updates to the estimates used during the first quarter, which resulted in a change to the remeasurement. For the six months ended March 31, 2018, the Company has recorded a tax benefit of approximately $10,100,000 to account for these deferred tax impacts.
The impact of adopting ASC 610 -20 has been modified in the quarter ended March 31, 2019 to reflect the deferred income tax impact of this adoption. The deferred tax asset related to the deferred gain on sale has been decreased by $3,704,000 with a corresponding decrease to retained earnings, offsetting the October 1, 2018 increase to retained earnings for the ASC 610-20 implementation (see Note 7. “Deferred Gain on Sale”).
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