Employee Profit-Sharing Encouragement Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
Denies a tax deduction for executive compensation at large employers unless the employer makes qualified, broad-based profit-sharing cash distributions to employees.
Who Benefits and How
Employees at covered employers gain leverage for receiving cash profit-sharing distributions tied to company performance.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Large employers that do not maintain compliant profit-sharing plans lose deductions for executive pay, and Treasury must administer the new qualification and anti-abuse rules.
Key Provisions
- Adds a new Internal Revenue Code rule denying executive-compensation deductions for specified employers unless they make qualified profit-sharing distributions.
- Defines the profit-sharing plan conditions, including coverage, minimum distribution, nondiscrimination, and going-concern exceptions.
- Authorizes Treasury to address employer abuses tied to the new deduction condition.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Denies a tax deduction for executive compensation at large employers unless the employer makes qualified, broad-based profit-sharing cash distributions to employees.
Key Policy Areas
Finance, Labor, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
Denies a tax deduction for executive compensation at large employers unless the employer makes qualified, broad-based profit-sharing cash distributions to employees.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Employees eligible for profit-sharing distributions
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Large employers paying high executive compensation
- Treasury tax administrators
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMrs. Watson Coleman introduced the following bill; which was referred …
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Large employers paying high executive compensation
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the secretary"
- → Secretary of the Treasury
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