A 409a deferred compensation plan is a non-qualified arrangement that allows employees to defer a portion of their income to a future date. This plan is often used by high-income earners to reduce ...

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You've climbed the corporate ladder, you're making good money and suddenly someone from human resources presents you with a newfangled employee benefit -- the opportunity to participate in a deferred ...

Learn about nonqualified deferred compensation plans, their advantages and disadvantages, and how they compare to other ...

Are you maxing out the 401(k) plan you have at work every year? Do you still have money left for saving and investment after contributing the maximum to your 401(k) and maybe an IRA or two? If so, ...

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When companies withhold a portion of an employee's pay until a specified date, usually after the employee retires, that withheld portion is termed deferred compensation. Businesses provide deferred ...

When Enron imploded, everything it had done was held suspect, and one of those things was to permit employees to avoid current taxation by deferring compensation to future taxable years. By Schuyler ...

To defer or not to defer? That question is usually on executives' minds this time of year as they make their annual elections to defer a portion of next year's compensation under executive deferred ...

Deferred compensation plans allow you to offer employees income spread out over the future in exchange for their work today. Retirement plans that you contribute to on behalf of your employees are a ...

Deferred compensation plans can be a tremendous tax saver but when things don't go as planned, they can cause greater taxation to increase substantially. Q.I've been participating in my company's ...