The fight over deferred compensation for advisors who have left their firms has now spilled over to Merrill. A putative class action suit filed in federal court in North Carolina late last month ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was more than a little ironic, therefore. that American International Group, Inc. said that it is terminating 14 voluntary deferred compensation programs involving 5,600 employees and independent ...

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 ...

You can attract and retain top executives by offering deferred compensation plans. This plan is an agreement in which you promise to pay part of the executive's salary at a future time. The attraction ...

Saying “pay me later” can be tempting so taxes are due later. You can often navigate the tax concept of constructive receipt so you are taxed later. But in 2004, Congress restricted deferring income ...

The Wisconsin Deferred Compensation Program (WDC) offers employees a strategic way to save for retirement by allowing them to set aside a portion of their salary aside to be paid out at a later date, ...

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 ...