Company: ABBV
Filing Date: 2025-11-04
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001551152-25-000049
Chunk: 52

Company: AbbVie Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-04
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
Chunk 52
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5 compared to 25% for the three months and 28% for the nine months ended September 30, 2024. The effective tax rate in each period was higher than the U.S. statutory tax rate of 21% principally due to business development activities and changes in fair value of contingent consideration, partially offset by the impact of foreign operations which reflects the impact of lower income tax rates in locations outside the United States. The increase in the effective tax rate for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 over the prior year was primarily due to business development activities and changes in fair value of contingent consideration, partially offset by changes in jurisdictional mix of earnings. 

On July 4, 2025, the United States government signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025 (2025 Act). Included within the 2025 Act are provisions that permanently extend certain expiring provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, modify the international tax framework to reduce the tax rate on certain foreign earned income, restore the tax treatment of expensing for domestic research and development costs and bonus depreciation, and allow for full expensing of qualified production property. In addition, the legislation contains multiple effective dates and transition elections, with certain provisions effective in 2025 and others implemented through 2027. The company expects the new legislation to have a favorable impact on cash tax payments in the current year. The company will continue to assess the impact of the 2025 Act as further information is made available. 

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Note 12 Legal Proceedings and Contingencies AbbVie is subject to contingencies, such as various claims, legal proceedings and investigations regarding product liability, intellectual property, commercial, securities and other matters that arise in the normal course of business. Loss contingency provisions are recorded for probable losses at management’s best estimate of a loss, or when a best estimate cannot be made, a minimum loss contingency amount within a probable range is recorded. The recorded accrual balance for litigation was approximately $1.5 billion as of September 30, 2025 and $2.5 billion as of December 31, 2024. For litigation matters discussed below for which a loss is probable or reasonably possible, the company is unable to estimate the possible loss or range of loss, if any, beyond the amounts accrued. Initiation of new legal proceedings or a change in the status of existing proceedings may result in a change in the estimated loss accrued