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Alert: New IRS Retirement Plan Compliance Program

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Dear Plan Sponsor - Have you received a letter from the IRS with respect to your retirement plan? If so (or if not, but you want to be prepared in the event you do receive “the letter”), read on....more

Holland & Knight LLP

IRS Announces Retirement Plan Compliance Pilot Program

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Under the IRS Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS), as set forth in Revenue Procedure 2021-30, a plan that has been notified of an impending audit cannot remedy issues using the Voluntary Correction Program,...more

Woods Rogers

IRS Announces Another Compliance (Audit) Pilot Program. Oh joy!

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In the June 3, 2022, issue of the IRS Employee Plans News, the IRS Employee Plans group announced it is piloting a pre-examination retirement plan compliance program beginning in June 2022. Under this program, the IRS will...more

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Required Minimum Distributions and Missing Plan Participants

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In January of 2021, we published two blog posts regarding Department of Labor (“DOL”) guidance on missing retirement plan participants. The first post describes DOL guidance on best practices for locating missing retirement...more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

Don’t gamble for a DOL audit

The last two times I was in Las Vegas, I didn’t gamble a penny. I didn’t gamble because I hate to lose. Yet I see so many plan sponsors and plan providers gamble by not correcting a glaring compliance issue and play that...more

Proskauer - Employee Benefits & Executive...

Protecting Your Qualified Retirement Plan Now that the IRS Determination Program is (Mostly) Closed

A lot has been written over the last few months about what to do now that the IRS has closed its determination letter program for ongoing individually designed tax-qualified retirement plans....more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

Mistakes a Plan Sponsor Should Correct Before an IRS/DOL Audit

I have been in the retirement plan business for over 15 years and I have met too many plan sponsors who don’t care that their plan isn’t being run correctly. What makes them eventually care is when they are audited by the...more

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