The natural reply to make to the critique is that there surely is no tax angle after all, if the professional is taxed at the same marginal rate as the business. And remember that a good company facing a minimal average rate on its income, due to other tax planning such as leading to its U.S. 35 million tax bill. I doubt many readers of the blog admittance will consider this the book or a hugely astonishing point.
Indeed, it is made repeatedly, and sometimes vituperatively, by readers of the NY Times article who submitted comments talking about it. So let em add two further lines of conversation here just. First, I’d certainly concur that the executive comp discussed in this article is an enormous problem, even if it is not a tax problem.
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The issues it increases are twofold: distributional and corporate and business governance. As to the former, rising executive comp during the last twenty years is an enormous contributor (both straight and indirectly) to increasing U.S. Conventional economic theory would suggest that this reflects that the execs are adding more value merely, so even though you dislike the distributional result it might be gratuitously inefficient to strike rising executive comp as such.
I eventually think that conventional financial theory is wrong in cases like this, but that would require a lengthy discussion of its it doesn’t really fit well here. So let’s move on to corporate and business governance. While this is a serious corporate and business governance problem, to a degree you can argue that the taxes system helps actually, than making things worse rather.
High-ranking professionals might be happier still if commodity were nondeductible, let’s assume that this meant that they would also be treated as tax-free to the grantee. 100 million under current law. Indeed, taxpayers like this result a lot they are often apparently quite willing to risk paying MORE tax overall if this allows them to steer as near to it as present laws allows. Why aren’t professional commodity taxable when granted? Under the relevant Code provision, however, employees can choose to really have the options respected and included (as well as deducted by the business) in the year when they may be granted.
If they make this election, the choice is valued as though the chance of forfeiture didn’t exist. Therefore led for years to the next tax planning technique. I choose to have my option valued and included / deducted in the year if it is granted. But I claim that the option value is zero, reflecting that it is not yet in the amount of money (i.e., the stock price doesn’t yet go beyond the exercise price).
In truth, the stated value is ludicrous, because the person declaring the zero value would very refuse to sell the choice likely, if this were permissible, even if offered many thousands (or perhaps a huge number) of dollars for this. The IRS was so upset about this technique that it issued a legislation providing that, if the option’s value isn’t sufficiently “ascertainable” (which basically requires that it come with an observable market price), taxpayers can’t go the election route here. So the IRS effectively pushes many taxpayers, unlike their preferences and an arguably fairer reading of the statute itself prior to the regulation was released, to wait for taxable income at a later point.
What could possibly be going on here? Well, probably several things. For just one, if the business has net losses (as may be common in the start-up period even without tax haven games and the like) then your employer deduction doesn’t make up completely for the employee inclusion. For another, if you hold the stock until death then the deferred taxes on post-taxability gratitude completely disappears.
Perhaps a few people are myopic and want to defer the employee-side day of reckoning. Executives who are trying to conceal the ball regarding how much they may be actually getting paid don’t want to pay taxes sooner since it’s inconvenient to have to rely on gross-up to make themselves entire. Bottom line, without condemning today’s article in the Times there are still some interesting sides to pursue, though it’s possible that the editors would consider them too esoteric for a page 1 placement. But perhaps still worth web page 1 in the business section?
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