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Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code prohibits a publicly held corporation from taking compensation-related tax deductions with respect to the compensation of a “covered employee” to the extent the compensation exceeds...more
President-elect Donald Trump’s impending return to power on January 20, 2025, has created uncertainty and challenges for proxy advisory firms, such as ISS and Glass Lewis, which provide voting recommendations to investors on...more
Pubic companies that sponsor nonqualified deferred compensation plans with grandfathered benefits will want to be aware of helpful payment guidance in the Internal Revenue Code Section 162(m) final regulations. The final...more
Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (as amended, the “Code”) imposes a $1 million deductibility limit on compensation paid by “publicly held corporations” to “covered employees.” As reported in our previous...more
Executives of public companies looking to their personal and company compensation planning in the New Year face a host of challenges. They and their compensation committees do, however, have the benefit of long-awaited...more
The Internal Revenue Code is famously complicated, and changes to discrete parts of the code - such as those adopted by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) - have a notorious history of leading to unpredictable and...more
As 2020 comes to an end, we are happy to present our traditional End of Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” Lists. We are publishing our “To Do” Lists in four separate Employee Benefits Updates. Part 1 covered year-end health and...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) upended public company compensation structures nationwide. Prior to the TCJA, Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, generally provided for a $1 million...more
Recently proposed IRS regulations reverse the reasoning of several past IRS private letter rulings regarding the application of the $1 million compensation cap of Section 162(m) to UPREIT structures in publicly traded REITs...more
The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) recently proposed Regulation 122180-18 (the “Proposed Regulations”) to implement the amendments found in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (the “Act”)1 to Section 162(m) of the Internal...more
Recently issued proposed regulations clarify changes made by the TCJA to the tax deductibility of executive compensation. Section 162(m) of the US Internal Revenue Code (the Code) as amended by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act...more
On December 20, 2019, the IRS issued proposed regulations under Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code....more
Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code disallows a deduction by any publicly held corporation for applicable employee remuneration paid with respect to any covered employee to the extent that remuneration for the taxable...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) made significant changes to Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code (Section 162(m)), expanding the scope of individuals and entities subject to Section 162(m), in addition to...more
On December 16, 2019, the IRS issued proposed regulations under Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Proposed Regulations”). The Proposed Regulations respond to comments made on Notice 2018-68 (the “Notice”),...more
The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) significantly amended Internal Revenue Code Section 162(m), which generally disallows the deduction of compensation in excess of $1 million paid by a “publicly held corporation” to a...more
The Section 162(m) deduction limit for performance-based compensation was repealed by the Tax Cut and Jobs Act, effective for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017, subject to transition relief. ...more
On August 21, 2018, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Notice 2018-68, which provides eagerly awaited guidance for changes that were made to Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code...more
On August 21, 2018, the IRS issued its initial guidance on the amendments to Section 162(m) made by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, in the form of Notice 2018-68. The guidance is fairly limited and does not completely address...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Tax Act”) has significant implications for public company executive compensation plans for tax years beginning after December 31, 2017 and will likely have a considerable impact on the future...more
Late last year, Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Act”) and it was quickly signed by the President. The Act seeks to reform the current tax system and contains numerous provisions that may be significant to...more
The Tax Cuts and Job Act of 2017 was recently signed into law creating two important changes in executive compensation, which we outline below. The Tax Bill Permits Certain Employees to Elect to Defer Taxation of Qualified...more
Disclosures regarding the new tax act, often referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act or TCJA, continue to be prominent in SEC filings. Set forth blow is an explanation of the often obscure GAAP accounting driving many of the...more