Taxation & Estate Planning

A bonus! An extra listing about posts on bonus arrangements with law firms
It is easy to say: ?Set up bonus incentives for our law firms to motivate better performance.? Sometimes the goals of the company that will earn a law firm a bonus are tangible and straightforward to articulate (See my posts...

Bonus Calculation on Termination in a Recession
An issue that has arisen of late if how you calculate "bonus" on termination in a recession. Assuming that a bonus is non-discretionary or has become non-discretionary in one way or another, Courts will often include some component of bonus through the period of reasonable notice...

Tax bonus is constitutional
The High Court has announced its decision in Pape's challenge to the validity of the Tax Bonus for Working Australians Act (No 2) 2009 (Cth): The Bonus Act is a valid law of the Commonwealth...

Shell and BP "Retention Bonuses"
Shell and BP roiled their investors by announcing plans to pay huge, one-time ("one-off") "retention bonuses" to senior executives. They make no sense. A "one-off" retention bonus, once made, will not retain anybody once the bonus is paid...

AIGs Bonus Bonanza: Will the Government Get Its Money Back
We size up the legal arguments in the AIG bonus kerfuffle.

The AIG Bonus Furor, Take II: A Ride Through the Webosphere
Everyone and her brother, it seems, has a solution to the AIG-bonus mess. We take a look at a variety of prescriptions from around the Web.

DAY 3: Diet Drug Trial
Witness in fen-phen trial testifies he got $3 million bonus, new car as bonus WAVE3 COVINGTON, Ky. (AP) - The first witness in the fen-phen settlement trial of three attorneys testified he got a $3 million bonus and a new car for working on the case...

Friday Fun - Bonus
This is blatantly political, so I'll include it as a bonus Friday Fun. Be sure to mouse over everything and click when you see the hand. Check out PalinAsPresident.