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The Taxation Of Distributions From Qualified Employee Benefit Plans, Louis A. Mezzullo
The Taxation Of Distributions From Qualified Employee Benefit Plans, Louis A. Mezzullo
University of Richmond Law Review
One of the most confusing aspects of employee benefit plans is the federal tax treatment of distributions to the participants of these plans and to the beneficiaries of deceased participants. The issues frequently involve not only income taxation, but estate and gift taxation as well. While the average practitioner may never be called upon to draft a pension or profit-sharing plan, he may be asked by his client about the consequences of the various alternative methods
of receiving a benefit from such a plan. Many employee benefit plans, particularly profit-sharing plans, offer a participant upon his retirement from the plan …