Employee Ownership Blog

The NCEO has just released new editions of two publications.

The sixth annual conference on Ownership Thinking will take place October 11 and 12 in Englewood, CO.

In a guest column in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, CEO Louis Guzzetti of ESOP-owned Spinnaker Coating makes an eloquent case for ESOPs, calling them a "proven mechanis

In a study (PDF format) released on July 26, Alex Brill, a former advisor to the Simpson-Bowles bipartisan deficit reduction commission and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, conclud

The governor of Iowa, Terry Branstad, recently signed into law a bill to encourage the creation of ESOPs.

The JOBS Act raised the threshold from 500 to 2,000 on the number of shareholders a closely held company can have before the company becomes treated as a de facto public company.

South Africa held a conference on employee ownership hosted by the Industrial Development Corporation. Attendees represented many employee ownership companies, service providers to those companies, the government, and quasi-governmental agencies that support employee ownership.

Steve Parrish, a contributing writer at Forbes, wrote an article describing four illogical ways that ESOPs benefit company owners, from se

In addition to CPE credits (for accountants) and HRCI credits (for human resources personnel), select NCEO seminars and Webinars now offer IRS continuing education credit for enrolled retirement plan agents.

On July 4, UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced new initiatives to promote employee ownership.

The NCEO and the Beyster Institute at the University of California San Diego's Rady School of Business launched the California Center for Employee Ownership, a joint project to increase understanding of employee ownership in California among businesses and the general population.

In its report titled Employee Stock Treatment and Tax Issues (No. RL31458), the Congressional Research Service (CRS) finds that the current tax treatment of stock options is not abusive.