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2006

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Editorial, Federal Tax Reform Has Gone By The Wayside, Michael Hussey Apr 2006

Editorial, Federal Tax Reform Has Gone By The Wayside, Michael Hussey

Michael Hussey

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Has Congress Stopped Executives From Raiding The Bank? A Critical Analysis Of I.R.C. §409a, Michael Hussey Dec 2005

Has Congress Stopped Executives From Raiding The Bank? A Critical Analysis Of I.R.C. §409a, Michael Hussey

Michael Hussey

In October 2004 Congress passed the American Jobs Creation Act ("AJCA"). Among other things, the AJCA created Internal Revenue Code §409A to address perceived abuses of nonqualified deferred compensation. Section 409A contains detailed and restrictive provisions relating to nonqualified deferred compensation including rules on when distributions may be made, when the arrangement may be renegotiated, and new penalties applicable if a plan fails to qualify under §409A.

This paper focuses on how §409A began largely as a reaction to the sizeable distributions to Enron executives from their nonqualified deferred compensation accounts shortly before Enron's collapse. The paper discusses how §409A …