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ESOPs Explained
Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) can seem confusing, but they are actually very simple and attractive tools for attracting and retaining top talent, and providing flexibility for business owners.
ESOPs are very similar to profit-sharing plans, except that they must be primarily ...
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ESOP Share Distributions: “Recycle” Or Redeem?
You have choices when it comes to distributing ESOP benefits to participants. Do you distribute shares from the plan that the company immediately redeems from the participant? Or, do you keep the shares in the plan by recycling them among the remaining accounts and distribute cash? This article ...
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ESOP Companies: Should You Elect S Corporation Status?
Here's the analysis you need to figure out whether electing S corporation status makes sense for your ESOP company. We look at built-in gain, LIFO/FIFO, tax attributes and more. You'll still want to talk to your CPA, but this article will give you what you need so you can ask the right questions. ...
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ESOP Reshuffling – Good For Everyone On Deck … And Off
There are a variety of options for ESOP companies looking to maximize stock allocations to active participants, minimize stock allocations to terminated participants, and efficiently use the cash within the trust to accomplish these objectives. This article briefly looks at two of ...
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Plan Amendments: ‘How To’s’ Of Plan Administration
Improperly amending a retirement plan can jeopardize the plan's tax-qualified status. For health benefit plans or other welfare plans, it can be the prospect of a recovery for the plaintiff's lawyers seeking benefits for their individual participant clients. So why assume anything is ...
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The S Corporation ESOP Structure
The significant tax savings heralded in the tax press for the S Corporation ESOP structure depend on the strategy for the use of the ESOP, as well as the strategy for using the cash that the plan might be able to accumulate in lieu of paying it into federal and state taxes.
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ESOP Restatements And Submissions … Making The Most Of Your Relationship With The IRS?
By now, all companies sponsoring ESOPs should be aware that their plan documents must be restated and submitted to the IRS every five years for a letter of determination of their tax qualified status. What they may not realize is that the ESOP restatement process offers potentially ...
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Equity Sharing In Compensation Planning
Stock-based compensation is a staple of senior executives and key management employees in privately held companies. In public companies it is typically broad based as well. In both publicly traded and privately held companies, employees are almost uniformly interested in a piece of the pie ...
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