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- From: ask@cbnews.cb.att.com (Arthur S. Kamlet)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Income tax ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.225002.21261@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 22:50:02 GMT
- References: <Jan.26.09.38.52.1993.14618@presto.ig.com> <1993Jan26.215721.12433@unocal.com>
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- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio
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- In article <1993Jan26.215721.12433@unocal.com> stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini) writes:
- >Some companies allow employees to particpate in a pretax medical deduction
- >plan. You can set aside a certain amount in a reserve to pay for costs.
- >The reserve is not taxed, so in may case I save 45%.
- >However, any surplus in the reserve cannot be given to the employee, nor
- >transferred in future years in my company.
-
- In our plan, any surplus is split equally among all participants the
- in the plan next year. So if there was a surplus from 1992, all
- surplus is divided equally and paid (taxable) to all 1993 plan
- participants.
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- Art Kamlet a_s_kamlet@att.com AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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