By Porter Wright on A fall over the dreaded fiscal cliff has been avoided—at least for now. Unless pre-occupied by New Year's revelry or college football bowl games, all of us are well, and perhaps painfully, aware that Congress managed to by-pass the dreaded fiscal cliff by passing a tax relief bill on January 1, 2013.… Continue Reading
By Greg Daugherty on Because of the pending fiscal cliff and the possibility of higher tax rates coming in 2013, we have been asked if private company employers should accelerate payments of incentive compensation into 2012, rather than pay them in 2013. This strategy may sound tempting to executives given all of the headlines of the fiscal cliff and potentially higher tax rates on high-wage earners. Still, a lot can happen between now and December 31st. … Continue Reading
