Company: BRSL
Filing Date: 2025-05-13
Form Type: 6-K
Source: 0001619762-25-000017
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Company: Brightstar Lottery PLC
Filing Date: 2025-05-13
Form: 6-K
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 one or more of its subsidiaries are also, from time to time, subjects of, or parties to, ethics and compliance inquiries and investigations related to the Company’s ongoing operations. Legal proceedings that were previously disclosed may no longer be reported because, as a result of the rulings in the case, settlements, changes in our business, or other developments, in our judgment, they are no longer material to the Company’s business, financial position, or results of operations.

At March 31, 2025, provisions for all legal proceedings was $4 million . With respect to legal proceedings where we have determined that an incremental loss is reasonably possible but we are unable to determine an estimate of that reasonably possible loss in excess of amounts already accrued, no additional amounts have been accrued, given the uncertainties of litigation and the inherent difficulty of predicting the outcome of legal proceedings.

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#### Income Taxes
|                                          |     | For the three months ended March 31, |      |   |     |      |      |   |
| ($ in millions, except percentages)      |     |                                 2025 |      |   |     | 2024 |      |   |
| Income before provision for income taxes |     |                                      |   56 |   |     |      |  173 |   |
| Provision for income taxes               |     |                                      |   48 |   |     |      |   57 |   |
| Effective income tax rate(1)             |     |                                      | 85.3 | % |     |      | 33.1 | % |

(1) Determined using an estimated annual effective income tax rate.

The effective income tax rate for the three months ended March 31, 2025 of 85.3% differed from the U.K. statutory rate of 25.0% primarily due to operating losses in jurisdictions in which we do not receive a tax benefit, foreign rate differential, and the impact of the international provisions of the U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (the “Tax Act”).

The effective income tax rate for the three months ended March 31, 2024 of 33.1% differed from the U.K. statutory rate of 25.0% primarily due to operating losses in jurisdictions in which we do not receive a tax benefit, foreign rate differential, and the international provisions for the Tax Act.

At March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, we had reserves