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The free Coursera course "Our Share: Employee Ownership as a Wealth Sharing Tool," launched by The Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing, begins on January 30.

Under current law, employee benefit trusts cannot own stock in an S corporation. The new law would change this, effective January 1, 1998, to allow ESOPs, profit sharing plans, stock bonus plans, and 401(k) plans to own stock in their companies.

U.S. Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI) and Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO) have introduced the Savings for All Vocations Enhancement (SAVE) Act, a bill that would encourage more S corporation ESOPs by allowing sellers to get the same tax deferral available to owners of C corporations who sell to an ESOP.

In April, Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Pat Roberts (R-KS) introduced the Promotion and Expansion of Private Employee Ownership Act (S. 742).

Representatives Ron Kind (D-Wis.) and Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) have introduced the S Corporation ESOP Promotion and Expansion Act of 2009. The bill would:

A revised version of the S corporation reform legislation that was included in the tax bill that passed Congress earlier this year (and that the President vetoed) may be resurrected in a bill to extend popular tax deductions and credits now working its way through Congress.

The 60,000-employee French aerospace, defense, and security company Safran won the 2012 grand prize for employee stock ownership from the French Fédération des Associations d'actionnaires Salariés and the compensation and benefits prize from Observatoire des Rémunérations et Avantages Sociaux for

The Daimler Benz-Chrysler merger has prompted a number of questions about whether the acquisition of a U.S. corporation by a foreign corporation (or a merger of a U.S.

On September 26, Salisbury University (Maryland) will offer a half-day course on shared entrepreneurship, cultures of innovation, and hands-on examples from the recently published book Shared Entrepr

Our online document library for members now features a sample ESOP plan administration charter.