Tax-deductible dividends! The powerful, but forgotten incentive for your employees.
What?!
What if you could grant or bonus stock to your employees and your company could deduct the price of the shares? What if you could then declare, ...
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Equity Sharing In Compensation Planning
Updated November 2021
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 ...
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Is an ESOP Right for Your Business?
An ESOP can be a good option for business owners who want to transfer the ownership of their company over time. These are the top four questions we receive from clients who are starting to investigate an ESOP.
How do we find out if an ESOP is a ...
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ESOP Feasibility vs. Suitability
Hello Mr. Long… We're thinking about doing an ESOP and heard that we need a feasibility study. Do you do that? That's the way these conversations usually start. The client is thinking about an ESOP and may have been told that the first thing they ...
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Finally! Pre-approved ESOP Plan Documents to Make Your Life Easier
Historically, ESOPs were custom written documents produced by lawyers, which had to be submitted to the Internal Revenue Service for approval. These documents could be costly to amend and maintain. With the arrival this summer of IRS pre-approved ...
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ESOPs Can Help Narrow Racial Wealth Gaps
It is highly researched and widely known that too much of the country’s capital wealth is concentrated in the hands of too few. Furthermore, Black Americans face greater systemic barriers to building wealth beyond the need for a decent wage. Employee ...
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