On August 21, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Notice 2018-68 containing much-awaited interpretive guidance on Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code as amended by last year's tax reform act (Tax Act), including...more
8/31/2018
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Corporate Taxes ,
Employee Benefits ,
Executive Compensation ,
Grandfathering Rules ,
Income Taxes ,
Section 162(m) ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ,
Tax Deductions ,
Tax Planning ,
Tax Rates ,
Tax Reform ,
Taxation ,
Trump Administration
The SEC recently amended Securities Act Rule 701, which provides a registration exemption for securities sold by non-reporting companies to their employees and other covered persons under compensatory arrangements. The...more
8/16/2018
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Compensation & Benefits ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Employee Benefits ,
Form S-8 ,
Gig Economy ,
Offerings ,
Restricted Stocks ,
Rule 701 ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Stock Options ,
Threshold Requirements
Congress and the Administration have been busy recently, enacting not only the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" or "TCJA" on December 22, 2017, but also a Continuing Resolution on January 23, 2018, and the Bipartisan Budget Act of...more
3/21/2018
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Compensation & Benefits ,
Depreciation ,
Employee Benefits ,
Executive Compensation ,
Fringe Benefits ,
Meals-Gifts-and Entertainment Rules ,
Paid Time Off (PTO) ,
Pass-Through Entities ,
Popular ,
Settlement ,
Sexual Harassment ,
Tax Credits ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ,
Tax Deductions ,
Tax Exempt Entities ,
Tax Reform ,
UBIT ,
Withholding Tax
On September 21, the SEC and the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance issued new and updated interpretive guidance regarding the CEO pay ratio disclosure required by Item 402(u) of Regulation S-K. The guidance...more
10/2/2017
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Disclosure Requirements ,
Dodd-Frank ,
Executive Compensation ,
Item 402 ,
Median Employee ,
Pay Ratio ,
Proxy Season ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Regulation S-K ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Statistical Sampling