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with the advent of what was called 401(K) plans.
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401(K) is a paragraph in the Internal Revenue Service Code--
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that's the tax--that's the IRS,
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the agency of the government that taxes everyone.
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Section 401(K) of the IRS Code defined
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circumstances in which money held in trusts for others might not be taxable.
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In 1981, for the first time, a company invoked this clause
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to ask that the defined contribution plan
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that they were setting up would not be taxed.
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Well actually, to make it clear, what it would be is
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if the employer or employee made contributions to the plan,
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then there would be no tax--