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Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation: Getting Ready for 2024 - Health and Welfare Plan Developments — Special Edition Podcast
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Welcome to this week’s edition of Tax Bytes. Our team of tax lawyers is actively monitoring for federal and international tax developments and issues of note. Each week we pull together the items we deem most important to...more
In this episode of Just Compensation, Megan Monson and Jessica I. Kriegsfeld talk to Anthony O. Pergola, Vice Chair of Lowenstein’s Emerging Companies & Venture Capital practice group, about the complexities and challenges of...more
The race to remake portions of the Internal Revenue Code (Code) and to prevent expiration of certain Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) provisions has begun, with House Ways & Means Committee proposals (the Markup) to spend...more
On January 14, 2025, the Internal Revenue Service and the US Treasury Department issued proposed regulations under Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code (Code) to implement changes under the American Rescue Plan Act of...more
Changes effective starting on January 1, 2027 - In the last few days preceding President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the IRS under the Biden administration proposed regulations to implement amendments to Internal Revenue...more
New proposed regulations under Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code would further limit deductibility of executive compensation paid by a publicly held corporation....more
On January 14, 2025, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) issued new proposed regulations under section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”), supplementing regulations already in effect. Under section 162(m),...more
Internal Revenue Code Section 162(m) generally limits the amount of compensation to certain individuals (Covered Individuals) that a publicly traded company may deduct as a business expense. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA)...more
As discussed, the IRS’s initial interpretation of a new excise tax under Section 4960 of the Internal Revenue Code could catch for-profit employers who set up foundations, trusts, PACs, and other tax-exempt entities off...more
• The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released IRS Notice 2019-09 (Notice) offering guidance under Section 4960 of the Internal Revenue Code as added by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. • Section 4960 applies to certain...more
On August 21, the IRS issued Notice 2018-68, Guidance on the Application of Section 162(m) ("Notice"). Internal Revenue Code ("Code") Section 162(m) places a limitation on the amount publicly traded companies are permitted to...more
Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), limits a publicly held corporation’s ability to take a corporate income tax deduction for compensation in excess of $1 million paid to “covered...more
On December 22, 2017, President Trump signed the bill popularly referred to as the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” (the “Act”) into law. The Act contains significant changes to Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code that are...more
Tax reform (Tax Cuts and Jobs Act) made significant changes to the taxation of executive compensation, which may increase the cost of certain arrangements. Publicly traded companies as well as those companies who must file...more
The tax reform act, formerly known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Act”), was approved by House and Senate Republicans and is ready to be signed into law by President Donald Trump. President Trump is expected to sign the...more
Under both the House and Senate versions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Internal Revenue Code Section 162(m) would be modified to expand the scope of companies and executive officers subject to the limitation on deductibility...more
Now You See It, Now You Don’t—Revised House and Senate Tax Reform Proposals Differ in Treatment of Executive Compensation. As we reported in last week’s Beltway Buzz, the House introduced its tax reform proposal last...more
On November 2, 2017, the Committee on Ways and Means of the U.S. House of Representatives released its tax reform bill titled the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “House Bill”). On November 6, 2017, Kevin Brady, Chairman of the...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act proposed by the US House of Representatives on November 2 (House Bill) proposes major modifications to employee and partner compensation and benefits-related provisions of the Internal Revenue Code,...more
The Situation: On November 2, 2017, the House Ways and Means Committee released its first draft of much-anticipated comprehensive U.S. tax reform legislation as the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act." Chairman Brady’s markup of the bill...more
On November 2, 2017, United States Representative Kevin Brady (R-TX), Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, introduced the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the Act), the Trump Administration’s much-heralded tax reform effort. In...more
The Trump administration’s proposed overhaul of the federal income tax system includes a reduction of the maximum federal corporate income tax rate from 35 percent to 15 percent. If enacted, the proposal — a one-page outline...more
Earlier this month, the Office of Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service released a Memorandum clarifying the impact of a correction of a Code Section 409A operational failure before the date of vesting of nonqualified...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently issued final regulations under Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code (Code). The final regulations are substantially similar to the proposed regulations issued by the IRS in...more
The Department of the Treasury has issued final regulations setting forth changes to the current regulations under Internal Revenue Code (Code) Section 162(m). Code Section 162(m) precludes a deduction by a public corporation...more