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 ...

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 ...

Deferred compensation allows individuals to delay receiving part of their income until a future date, often during retirement. This strategy is appealing for retirement savings and tax management, as ...

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

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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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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