There is a large professional literature on the correct measurement of the funded status of and indicated employer contributions to government employee pension plans. But static measures do not provide a quantification of the risk that plans could represent in the future in various possible...

There exists a wide variety of tax treatments of pensions across the world. And the reasons for such a range of regimes are not clear. This note reviews the general principles of pension taxes and analyses the theoretical foundations of why pension incomes ought to be taxed specifically. To do...

The law governing employer-provided retirement benefits is one of the most complex areas of federal tax law. Must it be so? A recent study by the Joint Committee on Taxation makes numerous suggestions for simplifying the federal tax system, including the law on qualified plans and other employee...

This report makes the case for a new review of the pension system in the UK. There are a number of key challenges facing future generations of pensioners that threaten their living standards in retirement and which, without policy action, mean many are likely to face substantial financial...

Pension freezes have become a trend in recent years. Both the underlying firms' employees and equity shareholders need to be aware of these pension modifications, this research aims at discovering the signals of pension freezes. This paper researches on hand-collected data of three kinds of...