Company: GE
Filing Date: 2025-04-22
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000040545-25-000062
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Company: GENERAL ELECTRIC CO
Filing Date: 2025-04-22
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 1
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 & ALL OTHER LIABILITIES.

Sales discounts and allowances increased $80 million in the three months ended March 31, 2025, primarily due to accruals on spare part discounts and other reserves outpacing payments to airline customers in Commercial Engines & Services.All other current liabilities and All other liabilities primarily includes employee compensation and benefits, equipment project and commercial liabilities, income taxes payable and uncertain tax positions, environmental, health and safety remediations, operating lease liabilities (see Note 6) and product warranties (see Note 22). All other current liabilities decreased $710 million in the three months ended March 31, 2025, primarily due to a decrease in employee compensation and benefits of $589 million primarily driven by payments of employee benefit liabilities, and a decrease in equipment projects and other commercial liabilities of $108 million. All other liabilities increased $162 million in the three months ended March 31, 2025, primarily due to increases in uncertain and other income taxes and related liabilities of $54 million, environmental, health and safety liabilities of $41 million and operating lease liabilities of $40 million.

NOTE 15. INCOME TAXES. Our effective income tax rate was 12.6% and 12.3% for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. The tax rate for 2025 was reduced compared to the U.S. statutory rate of 21% primarily due to U.S. business tax credit benefits, realized foreign tax credits benefits on the reinsurance transaction (see Note 12), tax benefits on equity compensation, and tax effects of favorable audit resolutions. The tax rate for 2024 was reduced compared to the U.S. statutory rate of 21% primarily due to gains associated with our retained and sold ownership interests, which we expect to recover without tax, and U.S. business credits. 

The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) has proposed a global minimum tax of 15% of reported profits (Pillar 2) that has been agreed upon in principle by over 140 countries. Since the proposal, many countries incorporated Pillar 2 model rule concepts into their domestic laws. Although the model rules provide a framework for applying the minimum tax, countries may enact Pillar 2 slightly differently than the model rules and on different timelines and may adjust domestic tax incentives in response to Pillar 2. In addition, in January 2025, the United States issued an executive order announcing opposition to aspects