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Joan Henley Vines CPA

Managing Director, BDO USA, P.A.

Ms. Vines is a Managing Director in BDO's National Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits practice. She has over 25 years of experience in a wide variety of employee welfare benefits, qualified plans, fringe benefits and executive compensation matters. She has been involved throughout her career in the design and taxation of the employee fringe and welfare benefit plans' including design, funding and operation.  She has followed the tax aspects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) since its inception, leading BDO's ACA task force. In addition to employee benefits, she has extensive experience in the technical review of compliance projects dealing with qualification of retirement plans, nondiscrimination testing and annual reporting on Form 5500s, Annual Return/Report of Employee Benefit Plan.   Also, her executive compensation experience includes matters on equity compensation and deferred compensation arrangements. She addresses both the plan design and the operational compliance to avoid or comply with IRC section 280G golden parachute payments and IRC section 409A deferred compensation rule. Joan is a regular presenter for BDO internal and external webinars, as well as other conferences including the annual AICPA National Compensation and Benefits Conference.   Ms. Vines is a member of the Compensation and Benefits Tax Resource Panel for the AICPA. 


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