Executives often participate in various nonqualified deferred compensation plans designed to reward upper management. These can be simple plan designs such as electively deferring a portion of their salary or bonus until a later year. Or the plan can be more complicated such as awards of phantom stock or stock appreciation rights that will pay
Executive Compensation
COVID-19 EFFECTS ON EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION OF PRIVATE COMPANIES-PART 1
By Scott E. Galbreath, J.D., LL.M (Tax) on
Posted in Executive Compensation
Rank and file employees who may have lost their job or had hours reduced probably don’t care about the effects of the economic downturn resulting from the COVID-19 Pandemic (Pandemic) on executives and key management employees. However, business owners who have provided such employees with employment agreements, deferred and/or incentive compensation, and perhaps equity or…
In 21st Century We May Not Have Hoverboards But We Have Electronic Top Hats
By Scott E. Galbreath, J.D., LL.M (Tax) on
Posted in Executive Compensation

In 1989’s film Back to the Future II, Marty McFly rides a hoverboard (flying skateboard) to escape Griff Tannen and his gang of teenage thugs in the year 2015. Well…
Loophole For State University Coaches Excess Compensation Is A Congressional Fumble
By Scott E. Galbreath, J.D., LL.M (Tax) on
Posted in Executive Compensation, Government Plans

The 2017 Tax Act enacted section 4960 to the Internal Revenue Code, a new provision imposing a 21% tax on “applicable tax…