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Welcome to the Snell & Wilmer Benefits Blog. We will be posting about current employee benefits and executive compensation topics and issues. We invite you to contact the authors with your thoughts or questions.Blog Contributors
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Certain Information Statements for ISOs and ESPPs Due by January 31, 2023
As reported in Part 4 of our 2022 End of Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” List, Section 6039 of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”) requires employers to provide a written information statement to each employee or former employee and … Continue reading
Posted in Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation
| Tagged Executive Compensation
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‘Tis the Season: Four Year-End Employee Benefit Plan Checklists
Each year, we publish health and welfare, cost-of-living, executive compensation, and qualified retirement plan checklists to help individuals and employers stay apprised of updates to the law of employee benefits. We recently published the last of these annual checklists. In … Continue reading
Posted in Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation, Health & Welfare Plans, Health Care Reform, Qualified Retirement Plans
| Tagged COLA, cost-of-living, Executive Compensation, health and welfare, qualified plans, year end checklist
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In Case You Missed It … Recent Posts From the SW Benefits Update
We periodically consolidate our prior blog posts and push them out as a single package to help individuals catch up on what they might have missed with respect to important health and welfare, qualified retirement plan, and executive compensation issues. … Continue reading
Posted in Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation, Health & Welfare Plans, Health Care Reform, Qualified Retirement Plans
| Tagged blog, CARES Act, covid-19, Executive Compensation, health and welfare, retirement plan, roundup
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Enjoy the End of the Decade with Some Employee Benefit Plan Checklists
Each year, we publish health and welfare, cost-of-living, qualified retirement plan, and executive compensation plan checklists to help individuals and employers stay apprised of updates to the law of employee benefits. We just published the last of these annual checklists. … Continue reading
Posted in Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation, Health & Welfare Plans, Health Care Reform, Qualified Retirement Plans
| Tagged checklists, COLA, cost-of-living, ERISA, Executive Compensation, Internal Revenue Code, qualified retirement plan, to do list
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Director Compensation Update
I’ve written a number of articles and blogs about some sticky issues that can surface in the context of setting pay for public company non-employee directors (here, here, here, and here). On March 6th the parties to the In re … Continue reading
Posted in Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation
| Tagged business judgment rule, director equity awards, equity awards, Executive Compensation, Investors Bancorp
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Making a List, Checking it Twice – 2017
It’s that time of year when boys and girls start making their lists for the holidays, but we in the employee benefits world make a very different kind of list. In the rapidly changing world of employee benefits and executive … Continue reading
Posted in Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation, Health & Welfare Plans, Health Care Reform, Qualified Retirement Plans
| Tagged Checklist, COLA, cost-of-living, Executive Compensation, health and welfare, qualified retirement plans
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“Creating Hope and Opportunity for Investors, Consumers and Entrepreneurs” – House Passes Financial Reform Bill
On June 8, the House of Representatives passed the Financial CHOICE Act of 2017 in a bid to reform the financial regulatory system created by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The bill, which passed the chamber … Continue reading
Posted in Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation
| Tagged bill, choice, clawback, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, corporate governance, Executive Compensation, Financial Choice act, House, Say on Pay, Senate, Volcker Rule
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Making a List, Checking it Twice
It’s that time of year when boys and girls start making their lists for the holidays, but we in the employee benefits world make a very different kind of list. In the rapidly changing world of employee benefits and executive … Continue reading
Posted in Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation, Health & Welfare Plans, Health Care Reform, Qualified Retirement Plans
| Tagged Checklist, employee benefits, end of the year, end-year, Executive Compensation, health and welfare, qualified plan, to do list
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Proposed IRS Regulations Simplify Section 83(b) Filing Requirements
As explained in a prior blog post, an employee who timely files a Section 83(b) election will be taxed on the fair market value of property transferred (typically restricted stock) to him or her in exchange for services on the … Continue reading
Posted in Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation
| Tagged Executive Compensation, fair market value, IRS, property transfer, proposed regulations, Section 83(b) election
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IRS Releases Clarifying 162(m) Regulations
The IRS recently released final regulations clarifying two aspects of the “performance-based compensation” exception to the $1,000,000 limit on deductible compensation paid to covered employees under Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code. Proposed regulations issued in 2011 provided that … Continue reading
Posted in Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation
| Tagged Executive Compensation, IRS, Performance-Based Compensation, reliance period, Section 162(m)
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