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DIS » Topics » How is the Company addressing Internal Revenue Code limits on deductibility of compensation?This excerpt taken from the DIS DEF 14A filed Jan 6, 2005. How is the Company addressing Internal Revenue Code limits on deductibility of compensation?
Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code generally disallows a tax deduction to public corporations for compensation over $1,000,000 paid for any fiscal year to the corporation’s chief executive officer and four other most highly compensated executive officers as of the end of any fiscal year. However, the statute exempts qualifying performance-based compensation from the deduction limit if certain requirements are met.
The Committee designs certain components of executive compensation to ensure full deductibility. The Committee believes, however, that shareholder interests are best served by not restricting the Committee’s discretion and flexibility in crafting compensation programs, even though such programs may result in certain non-deductible compensation expenses. Accordingly, the Committee has from time to time approved elements of compensation for certain officers that are not fully deductible, and reserves the right to do so in the future in appropriate circumstances.
Members of the Compensation Committee
Judith L. Estrin (Chair) Robert W. Matschullat Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J.
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