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November 10, 2017

Heavens! Senate Tax Bill Has Stuff That Was Just Deleted from House Bill!

Here’s the news from this FW Cook blog (also see this Davis Polk blog):

Yesterday evening, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Hatch released details of the Senate’s version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The most notable development for executive compensation is that the Senate bill generally contains the same executive compensation related provisions that were included in the first, and now outdated, release of the House bill (H.R. 1).

As previously reported, H.R. 1 was amended yesterday to remove Section 3801 of the bill, which provided for sweeping changes to the tax treatment of non-qualified deferred compensation, including stock options, under a new “Section 409B.”

For the moment, the new deferred compensation rules may be back on the table. The Senate Finance Committee meets for the first time on Monday, November 13 to begin consideration of the bill. Both the House and Senate versions are subject to further change, votes, and eventually reconciliation before final passage.

Broc Romanek