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    Best Practices for Reasonableness of Employee Compensation Analysis

    (Part III of III) Part one of this three-part series presented the description of Clary Hood, Inc. (“CHI”) and the description of the tax litigation concluded in the Hood decision. Part two of this series summarized the Tax Court’s analysis and conclusions regarding the reasonableness of executive compensation issues in this matter. This third and final discussion summarizes the Tax Court’s analysis and conclusions regarding the application of the Internal Revenue Code Section 6662 penalties in this matter. Introduction The U.S. Tax Court decision in Clary Hood, Inc. v. Commissioner[1] provides important practical guidance to private companies and to private…