The Charlotte office of McGuireWoods seeks a mid-level staff attorney for the Tax & Employee Benefits Department. Qualified candidates will have experience working with tax-qualified retirement plans, health and welfare benefits and executive compensation. Please submit cover letter, resume and law school transcript. Disclaimer: At this time, McGuireWoods will not be accepting applicants submitted through

The Charlotte office of McGuireWoods seeks an associate or counsel for the Tax & Employee Benefits Department.  Qualified candidates will have at least 5 – 6 years of experience working with tax-qualified retirement plans, health and welfare benefits and executive compensation.  Experience with executive compensation securities disclosure rules, ERISA plan-asset regulations in connection with fund

For many employers who sponsor qualified retirement plans and have employees impacted by the various natural disasters that occurred in 2016, the 2017 Tax Act offers important relief. Specifically, the Act provides favorable tax treatment for certain qualified retirement plan distributions to employees affected by 2016 natural disasters. The relief includes:

  • Income inclusion for distributions

One of the biggest changes of the new tax law is that it now provides for a flat 21% tax rate for corporations. Without more changes this would have been a problem for pass-through entities (if companies are taxed at a lower rate than individuals, the pass-through scheme doesn’t work). To solve this problem, the

It may be easy to miss given all of the big-ticket items in tax reform, but embedded in the bill are important changes to certain widely-offered fringe benefits.  Now that the holidays are past us, it’s a good time to check on whether any of your offerings are impacted.

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