Stock bonus plan

Stock bonus plan
A plan used as an incentive that rewards employee performance with stock in the company.
A corporation's purchase of its own outstanding stock, usually in order to raise the company's earnings per share.

STOCK BONUS PLAN:  A defined-contribution profit-sharing plan in which all employer contributions are in the form of employer stock and distributions to participants can be made in the form of employer stock.

Stock bonus plan of an employer that acquires SECURITIES issued by the plan sponsor.
See also: Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) ...

A qualified stock bonus plan or a qualified stock bonus and money purchase plan. Like a stock bonus plan, the contributions need not be dependent on profits, and benefits are distributable in the stock of the employer corporation.

The method of funding any type of qualified profit-sharing or stock bonus plan. Cash or deferred arrangements allow employees to contribute a portion of their salaries to the plan so that their savings can grow tax-deferred.

A tax-deferred retirement plan that can be offered by businesses of any kind. A company's 401(k) plan can be a "cash election" profit-sharing or stock bonus plan, or a salary reduction plan.

Qualified retirement plan: A pension, profit sharing, or stock bonus plan set up by an employer to provide retirement benefits for employees that qualifies for special tax treatment.

A type of defined contribution plan (defined by section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code) that allows an employee to elect to defer income by making pretax contributions to a profit sharing plan, a target benefit plan, or a stock bonus plan.

Certain exempt organizations, such as qualified pension, profit-sharing, and stock bonus plans, ...

credits; computing credit for investment in certain depreciable property; computation of taxable income; definition of gross income, adjusted gross income, and taxable income; itemized deductions; pensions, profit-sharing, and stock bonus plans; ...

Stock held by any qualified pension, profit-sharing, or stock bonus plan described in IRC § 401(a) that is exempt under IRC § 501(a) (Temp Treas. Reg. §§1.448-1T(e)(5)(iii) and (v)).

come in at once, the bid for the larger number of shares receives priority. The bid that is not executed is then turned to the broker, who informs the customer that the trade was not completed because there was "stock ahead.".
Stock bonus plan ...

stock bonus plan A profit-sharing plan that delivers benefits to employees in the form of stock rather than cash. stock buyback See buyback. stock certificate A document reflecting legal ownership of a specific number of stock shares in..

See also: Expense, Funding, Banks, Saving, Tax-Deferred