Tax Gross-up. If any payment, distribution or provision of a benefit hereunder (a “Payment”) would be subject to an excise tax pursuant to Sections 280G and 4999 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (“Code”), or any interest or penalties with respect to such excise or other additional tax (such excise tax, together with any such interest or penalties, are hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Excise Tax”), the Company, Surviving Corporation or any Subsidiary, as applicable (for purposes of this Section, all such entities are referred to as the “Gross-up Obligor”) shall pay to the Eligible Executive an additional payment (“Gross-up Payment”) in an amount such that, after payment by the Eligible Executive of all taxes (including any interest or penalties imposed with respect to such taxes), including any income taxes and Excise Taxes imposed on any Gross-up Payment, the Eligible Executive retains an amount of the Gross-up Payment equal to the Excise Tax imposed upon the Payments. Notwithstanding the foregoing, however, if the aggregate value of the Payments (as determined in accordance with Code Section 280G) is less than 110% of the product (such product to be referred to herein as the “Excise Tax Threshold”) of three times the Eligible Executive’s “base amount” (as such term is defined in Code Section 280G), then the Eligible Executive shall not be entitled to a Gross-up Payment and the Payments shall be reduced by the Company so that their aggregate value is equal to $1.00 less than the Excise Tax Threshold. If any payment or benefit intended to be provided under this Policy must be reduced in accordance with this Section, the Company shall designate the payments and/or benefits to be so reduced in order to give effect to this Section. The reduction shall first come from payments or benefits that are not permitted to be valued under Q&A 24(c) of Treasury regulation [Section 1.280G]‑1 and then by payments or benefits that are permitted to be valued under Q&A 24(c) of Treasury regulation [Section 1.280G]‑1. The Gross-up Obligor will coordinate with the Eligible Executive to make an initial determination as to whether a Gross-up Payment is required and the amount of any such Gross-up Payment. The Eligible Executive shall notify the Gross-up Obligor in writing of any claim by the Internal Revenue Service which, if successful, would require a Gross-up Payment (or a Gross-up Payment in excess of that initially determined). The Gross-up Obligor shall notify the Eligible Executive in writing at least ten (10) business days prior to the due date of any response required with respect to such claim if it plans to contest the claim. If the Gross-up Obligor decides to contest such claim, the Eligible Executive shall cooperate with the Gross-up Obligor in such action; provided, however, the Gross-up Obligor shall bear and pay all costs and expenses (including additional interest and penalties) incurred in connection with such action and shall indemnify and hold the Eligible Executive harmless, on an after-tax basis, for any Excise Tax or income tax, including interest and penalties with respect thereto, imposed as a result of the Gross-up Obligor’s action. If, as a result of the Gross-up Obligor’s action with respect to any such claim, the Eligible Executive receives a refund of any amount paid by the Gross-up Obligor with respect to such claim, the Eligible Executive shall promptly pay such refund to the Gross-up Obligor. If the Gross-up Obligor fails to timely notify the Eligible Executive whether it will contest such claim or the Gross-up Obligor determines not to contest such claim, then the Gross-up Obligor shall immediately pay to the Eligible Executive the portion of such claim, if any, which it has not previously paid to the Eligible Executive.

Gross-Up Payment. Anything in this Program notwithstanding, in the event it shall be determined that any payment, distribution or acceleration of vesting of any benefit hereunder would be subject to the excise tax imposed by Section 4999 of the Code, or any interest or penalties are incurred by the Participant with respect to such excise tax, then the Participant shall be entitled to receive an additional payment calculated as set forth in the Change in Control Severance Agreement with respect to such benefit hereunder; provided, however, that there shall be no duplication of such additional payment under this Program and the Change in Control Severance Agreement, and provided further that any such payment shall be made by the end of the calendar year after the Participant pays the excise tax (and interest or penalties incurred), or as otherwise required by Section 409A of the Code.

Gross-Up Payments If the Accounting Firm determines that any Payment gives rise, directly or indirectly, to liability on the part of Employee for excise tax under [Section 4999] (and/or any penalties and/or interest with respect to any such excise tax), [[Nordson:Organization]] will make additional cash payments (each, a “Gross-Up Payment”) to Employee, from time to time in such amounts as are necessary to put Employee in the same position, after payment of all federal, state, and local taxes (whether income taxes, excise taxes under [Section 4999] or otherwise, or other taxes) and any and all penalties and interest with respect to any such excise tax, as Employee would have been in after payment of all federal, state, and local income taxes if the Payments had not given rise to an excise tax under [Section 4999] and no such penalties or interest had been imposed. [[Nordson:Organization]]’s obligation to make Gross-Up Payments under this Section A is not contingent on termination of Employee’s employment with [[Nordson:Organization]]. [[Nordson:Organization]] will make each Gross-Up Payment to Employee within 30 days of the time that the related Payment constituting an excess parachute payment is paid or provided to Employee.

If any Borrower or [[Organization B:Organization]] on account of payments by Borrower shall be required by Applicable Law to withhold or deduct any Taxes from or in respect of any sum payable under this Agreement or any of the Other Documents to [[Organization B:Organization]], or any [[Organization C:Organization]], assignee of any [[Organization C:Organization]], or Participant (each, individually, a "Payee" and collectively, the "Payees"), subject to [Section 16.3(b), (a)])] if such withheld or deducted Taxes are Indemnified Taxes, the sum payable by Borrower to such Payee or Payees, as the case may be, shall be increased as may be necessary so that, after making all required withholding or deductions of Indemnified Taxes, the applicable Payee or Payees receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such withholding or deductions been made (the "Gross-Up Payment"), # such Borrower shall make such withholding or deductions of Taxes, and # such Borrower shall pay the full amount of Taxes withheld or deducted to the relevant taxation authority or other authority in accordance with Applicable Law. Except as otherwise provided in [Section 16.5] with respect to certain Taxes arising on certain assignments, the Loan Parties shall jointly and severally indemnify each [[Organization B:Organization]] and Payee (a "Tax Indemnitee") for the full amount of Indemnified Taxes arising in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document (including, without limitation, any Indemnified Taxes imposed or asserted on, or attributable to, amounts payable under this [Section 3.11]) payable or paid by, such Tax Indemnitee and all reasonable and documented costs and expenses (including reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel), actually incurred in connection therewith (whether or not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Body), except as arising out of the gross negligence or willful misconduct if the Tax Indemnitee (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable judgment). The obligations of the [[Organization A:Organization]] and Loan Parties under this [Section 3.11] shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the repayment of the Loans.

Withholding of Taxes; Gross-Up. Each payment by or on account of any Borrower under any Loan Document shall be made without withholding for any Taxes, unless such withholding is required by any law. If any applicable law (as determined in the good faith discretion of an applicable withholding agent) requires the deduction or withholding of any Tax from any such payment by a withholding agent, then the applicable withholding agent shall be entitled to make such deduction or withholding and shall timely pay the full amount deducted or withheld to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law and, if such Taxes are Indemnified Taxes, then the amount payable by such Borrower shall be increased as necessary so that, net of such withholding (including such withholding applicable to additional amounts payable under this Section), the applicable Recipient receives the amount it would have received had no such withholding been made.

No Excise Tax Gross-Up; Possible Reduction in Payments. Executive is not entitled to any gross-up or other payment for golden parachute excise taxes Executive may owe pursuant to Section 4999 of the Code. In the event that any amounts payable pursuant to this Agreement or other payments or benefits otherwise payable to Executive # constitute “parachute payments” within the meaning of Section 280G of the Code, and # but for this Section 4 would be subject to the excise tax imposed by Section 4999 of the Code, then such amounts payable under this Agreement and under such other plans, programs and agreements shall be either # delivered in full, or # delivered as to such lesser extent which would result in no portion of such benefits being subject to excise tax under Section 4999 of the Code, whichever of the foregoing amounts, taking into account the applicable federal, state and local income and employment taxes and the excise tax imposed by Section 4999 of the Code (and any equivalent state or local excise taxes), results in the receipt by Executive, on an after-tax basis, of the greatest amount of benefits, notwithstanding that all or some portion of such benefits may be taxable under Section 4999 of the Code. Any reduction in payments and/or benefits required by this Section 4 shall occur in the following order: # reduction of amounts payable under Section 4(b) or other cash payments, beginning with payments scheduled to occur soonest; # reduction of vesting acceleration of equity awards (in reverse order of the date of the grant); and # reduction of other benefits paid or provided to Executive.

Tax gross-up

Tax gross-up and indemnities

would have been compensated for by an increased payment under Clause 12.2 (Tax gross-up) but was not so compensated solely because one of the exclusions in Clause 12.2 (Tax gross-up) applied; or

“Treaty Lender” has the meaning given to it in Clause ‎12 (Tax gross-up and Indemnities).