Company: ICUI
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000883984-25-000007
Chunk: 293

Company: ICU MEDICAL INC/DE
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
Chunk 293
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, foreign-derived intangible income (“FDII”), federal and state valuation allowance, tax reserve releases, and tax credits. The effective tax rate in 2024 included a tax benefit of $10.1 million primarily related to unrecognized tax benefits released as a result of the expiration of the statute of limitations offset by a tax expense of $81.7 million related to a valuation allowance against certain U.S. federal and state deferred tax assets. 

The Company regularly assesses the realizability of deferred tax assets and records a valuation allowance to reduce the deferred tax assets to the amount that is more likely than not to be realized. In assessing the realizability of our deferred tax assets, we weigh all available positive and negative evidence. This evidence includes, but is not limited to, historical earnings, scheduled reversal of taxable temporary differences, tax planning strategies and projected future taxable income. Due to the weight of objectively verifiable negative evidence, the Company recorded a valuation allowance of $81.7 million tax expense and $3.9 million foreign currency translation and derivative instrument adjustments against certain U.S. federal and state deferred tax assets for the tax years ending December 31, 2024.  The significant piece of objectively verifiable negative evidence evaluated was the recent U.S. cumulative losses. Our ability to use our deferred tax assets depends on the amount of taxable income in future periods.       

In December 2022, the European Union (EU) agreed to implement Pillar Two, the OECD’s global minimum tax rate of 15% for multinationals that meet a global revenue threshold.  All of the EU countries and some of the non-EU countries in which we operate have enacted or have announced plans to enact legislation to adopt Pillar Two.  The Pillar Two legislation is effective for our fiscal year beginning January 1, 2024 and for fiscal year 2024, Pillar 2 did not have a material impact to our tax provision or effective tax rate.  However, the Pillar Two rules continue to evolve and their application may alter our tax obligations in certain countries in which we operate for fiscal periods beyond 2024 as we continue to assess the impact of tax legislation in these jurisdictions.  

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The effective tax rate in 2023 differs from the federal statutory rate of 21% principally because of the effect of the mix of U.S. and foreign income, state income taxes, section 162(m) excess compensation, foreign-derived intangible income (“FDII”),  and tax credits. The effective tax rate in