ESOP Nuts and Bolts
August 16, the Indiana Center for Employee Ownership joined Tim Garbinksy from the National Center for Employee Ownership, Service Providers, ESOP Companies and prospective ESOP companies for an in-person meeting ESOP Nuts and Bolts: What you need to know about Employee Stock Ownership Plans. Many thanks to BSA LifeStructures, one of Indiana’s newer ESOPS (established…
Main Street Employee Ownership Act
As reported by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s (D-NY) office, the Main Street Employee Ownership Act was officially signed into law today by President Trump as part of the Fiscal Year 2019 National Defense Authorization Act. Final language is attached. Final FY19 NDAA Conference Language for Main Street Employee Ownership Act This is the biggest employee ownership…
NCEO Employee-Ownership & Economic Well-Being
The National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO) published the results from the first phase of an ongoing research project that compares the economic well-being of employee-owners early in their careers with that of other young workers. This survey used the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97) data to compare median wages from income, median years at…
What is INCEO’s Mission?
The mission of the Indiana Center for Employee Ownership, Inc. (INCEO) is to promote better understanding of the values of employee ownership among business leaders, public officials, employees, members of the media, students, academic/academic institutions, consumers, and other persons and organizations in Indiana. One approach to accomplish our mission has been to provide education and…
Legislative Update July 17
This morning I received notification from Congress.Gov of an update to one of the bills INCEO is tracking on our federal legislation page. S. 1589, whose purpose is to amend the Internal Revenue Code to extend to all domestic corporations, including S corporations, provisions allowing deferral of tax on gain from the sale of employer…
Legislative Update 7-12-18
This morning I received notification from Congress.Gov of an update to one of the bills INCEO is tracking on our federal legislation page. H.R. 2293, whose purpose is to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 for purposes of the tax on private foundation excess business holdings to treat as outstanding any employee-owned stock purchased…
Poverty Growth in Indiana – Can Employee Ownership make a Difference?
Poverty Growth in Indiana – Can Employee Ownership make a Difference? Rick Van Doel, President/CEO of the Indiana Center for Employee Ownership As reported by the Sagamore Institute, every major Indiana city saw a percentage increase in the growth of poverty from 2000-2015, an overall increase in the impoverished population of 164,381 (Riggs et al.,…
2018 Beyster Symposium
As a Louis O. Kelso Fellow, Dr. Van Doel attended the 2018 Beyster Symposium. The purpose of the annual symposium is to study broad-based forms of financial participation in capital ownership and capital income, such as broad-based employee stock ownership, equity compensation, profit-sharing, gain sharing, and worker cooperatives in the corporation and the society of the…
National ESOP Survey
Update: Dan Weltmann & Jung Ook Kim attended the 4th Annual Great Lakes Conference and are still recruiting companies to participate in the National ESOP Employee Survey Project. If you are an ESOP and willing to participate in this national survey please contact Dan or Jung. About the survey – The Rutgers School of Management and…
2015 Indiana ESOP Distributions
Did you know, as reported in the 2015 DOL Data, the 176 Indiana ESOPs distributed $717,898,626 in benefits to their respective Employee-Owners? Our Indiana ESOPs help create wealth and provide retirement benefits for over 130,000 Hoosiers. These ESOP retirement accounts hold total plan assets in excess of $11.7 Billion dollars. The total contributions reported in…