Mary B. “Handy” Hevener is a Partner at Morgan Lewis. She helps US and multinational enterprises minimize corporate payroll taxes at both the federal and state levels, and maximize benefits–related tax deductions. She focuses her practice on the tax and information reporting treatment of employee and independent contractor benefits outside qualified retirement plans, including stock options and other stock-based compensation; executive income deferrals; golden parachutes; and fringe benefits that range from health and life insurance, to employee loans, cars, planes, and prizes. Handy is part of a group handling audits and appeals involving payroll tax, airline excise tax, and corporate deduction issues for companies in the healthcare, railroad, airline, and technology industries where the proposed taxes and penalties, in the aggregate, total more than $3 billion. These cases affect US and overseas employees receiving stock and stock options, reimbursements for travel costs and moving expenses, tax return preparation, and meals in company cafeterias. Listed in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2011–2018), and recognized as 2019 "Lawyer of the Year" in the practice area of Litigation and Controversy - Tax in New York City by The Best Lawyers in America, Handy is co-leader of the firm’s Fringe Benefits and Payroll Tax Task Force. As such, she often works in concert with lawyers from the employee benefits and executive compensation, and tax practices. Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, she served as an attorney-adviser for the US Treasury Department’s Office of the Tax Legislative Counsel. In that role, she focused on tax issues affecting current and deferred employee benefits (including parachute payments), and tax-exempt organizations. She also worked on legislation and IRS guidance affecting alternative minimum taxes, Social Security taxes, unemployment taxes, and a variety of excise taxes. Handy has served for 35 years as a member of the New York University’s Institute on Federal Taxation’s Advisory Board, and she speaks frequently before the Tax Executives Institute. As a volunteer, she served as one of the original members of the Information Reporting Program Advisory Committee to the IRS.
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