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Avoiding spectacular tax problems for employee separation pay

Thomas Bergh
Published: May 16, 2011
It is a common practice for employers to require terminating employees to execute a release of claims in exchange for designated separation pay. Compliance with esoteric tax rules governing the payment of deferred compensation is typically far from the minds of the decision makers during the termination process.

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