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U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Title: Executive Stock Options: Should the IRS and Stockholders Be Given Different Information?
Date: 6/5/07
Time (EST): 9:00 AM
Place: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Rm. 342
The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has scheduled a hearing entitled, "Executive Stock Options: Should the IRS and Stockholders Be Given Different Information?" The hearing is set for Tuesday, June 5th at 9:00 a.m., in Room 342 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The Subcommittee’s hearing will examine the role of stock options in executive compensation; the incidence of stock option abuses; how stock option compensation is reported to stockholders under generally accepted accounting principles versus how the same compensation is reported to the IRS under federal tax rules; the origins, nature, and extent of the resulting book-tax difference; and the policy reasons for continuing or ending the stock option book-tax difference.
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Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Hearing File: EXHIBITS 1-12 (June 5 2007 Exec. Stock Options Hrg)
 
Member Statements
    Senator Carl Levin   [View PDF]     Senator Norm Coleman   [View PDF]
 
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Witnesses Testimony
 
Panel 1
  STEPHEN F. BOLLENBACH [View PDF] , Chairman of the Board of Directors , KB Home , Los Angeles, California
  JOHN S. CHALSTY [View PDF] , Chairman, Compensation Committee , Occidental Petroleum Corporation , Los Angeles, California
  WILLIAM Y. TAUSCHER [View PDF] , Member & Former Chairman, Compensation Committee , Safeway, Inc. , Pleasanton, California

Panel 2
  KEVIN M. BROWN [View PDF] , Acting Commissioner , Internal Revenue Service , Washington, D.C.
  JOHN W. WHITE [View PDF] , Director, Division of Corporation Finance , Securities and Exchange Commission , Washington, D.C.

Panel 3
  LYNN E. TURNER [View PDF] , Former SEC Chief Accountant , Broomfield, Colorado
  MIHIR A. DESAI [View PDF] , Arthur M. Rock Center for Entrepreneurship Associate Professor , Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration , Boston, Massachusetts
  JEFF MAHONEY [View PDF] , General Counsel , Council of Institutional Investors , Washington, D.C.



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Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
340 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510