Removing Equity Income from BS effect dupont, decrease, statements, increase, reports

AnalystAlan

For a firm that reports equity income as non-operating income, removing equity income form the financial statements would most likely result in an increase in the tax burden term in the extended dupont decomposition of ROE.
Tax burden = NI/EBT
The decrease in NI form removing the Equity income will decrease the term (an apparently greater reduction in ROE due to taxes).
After the explanation above, I still don’t get it.
Can anyone plz clarify?