ACC 317 Advanced Federal Taxation

Executive Compensation” Please respond to the following.

In the article in titled Executive Compensation: What’s Reasonable?  by Philip Garrett Panitz, the author cautions CPA’s in advising clients on the tax issue of executive compensation. The author suggests that the deductibility of executive compensation is one of the biggest and potentially most dangerous tax issues facing corporations. Read the article and examine why you think excessive compensation continue to be an issue raised by the IRS in closely held corporations.

http://www.journalofaccountancy.com/Issues/2009/Jun/20081250.htm