Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code") requires deferred compensation to be paid under written agreements specifying both the time when payments commence and the form of payment. Section 409A prohibits earlier payment under an "anti-acceleration" rule.
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Common Questions from Plan Sponsors and Plan Committees
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Employers that sponsor non-qualified deferred compensation plans may choose to set aside funds in order to create a pool of assets that can be used to pay benefits that have been promised to executives.
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Internal Revenue Code Section 409A (“IRC 409A”) requires that elections to defer compensation be made only at specified times. An election to defer compensation that is made later than permitted under IRC 409A is not valid, and would preclude the intended deferral of income.
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Internal Revenue Code Section 409A (“IRC 409A”) permits employees who first become eligible to participate in a non-qualified plan during the middle of the year to enroll within 30 days of initial eligibility. This rule may be beneficial to employees who are first hired in – or promoted to an eligible position during the middle of a tax year. However, care must be taken to ensure the rule is properly applied.
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Multinational corporations frequently transfer employees to work in foreign countries for extended periods. Expatriation raises questions regarding the employee’s status as a participant in the company’s non-qualified deferred compensation plan. Legislation adopted in 2008 (the Heroes Earnings Assistance and Tax Relief Act) may also require that deferred compensation benefits be included in income on the expatriation date.
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Under Code Section 409A, an annual salary deferral election generally applies to all salary earned during the calendar year. If this concept were to apply to salary earned during the last payroll period of the year that crosses into the next year, human resources would need to identify the salary earned on or before December 31 and the salary earned after December 31, apply the appropriate deferral elections to each portion, (iii) communicate the two components of deferred compensation to the plan’s record keeper in order to assign the appropriate payment schedule to each portion and then (iv) communicate the combined deferral amount to payroll for processing.
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Are distributions from Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation Plans subject to state income "source" tax (i.e. can the state in which the income was earned impose its state income tax on the distributions from the plan, even though the recipient resides in a different state when reeicing the distribution)? The answer is "yes" unless the distribution meets one of two requirements.
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