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Income Taxes

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Income Taxes
6 Months Ended
Mar. 27, 2022
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes Income Taxes
We estimate our annual effective income tax rate to be 14% for fiscal 2022, which is lower than the U.S. federal statutory rate primarily due to a significant portion of our income qualifying for preferential treatment as foreign-derived intangible income (FDII) at a 13% effective tax rate, excess tax benefits associated with share-based awards and benefits from our federal research and development tax credit. Our effective tax rate for the second quarter of fiscal 2022 was 14%. Our effective tax rate of 17% for the second quarter of fiscal 2021 included $87 million of discrete net tax charges recorded in the second quarter of fiscal 2021, which principally related to a tax audit settlement with the Internal Revenue Service and foreign currency losses on a noncurrent receivable related to our refund claim of Korean withholding tax.
Unrecognized tax benefits were $2.1 billion at both March 27, 2022 and September 26, 2021 and primarily related to our refund claim of Korean withholding tax. If successful, the refund will result in a corresponding reduction in U.S. foreign tax credits. We expect that the total amount of unrecognized tax benefits at March 27, 2022 will increase in the next 12 months as licensees in Korea continue to withhold taxes on future payments due under their licensing agreements at a rate higher than we believe is owed; such increase is not expected to have a significant impact on our income tax provision.