CARES Act – Retirement Plan Distributions and Loans: Troutman Sanders and Pepper Hamilton COVID-19 Issues for Employers Podcast Series
Over the past several years, the U.S. Department of the Treasury has been preparing guidance concerning donor-advised funds (DAFs), which are accounts owned and controlled by public charities over which individual or...more
The SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (SECURE 2.0) significantly changes the legal and administrative compliance landscape for U.S. retirement plans. Foley & Lardner LLP is authoring a series of articles that take a “deep dive” into key...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the US Department of the Treasury released final regulations on October 16 that address the changes enacted by the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (PPA). The regulations provide...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS)N has issued a series of an FAQ questions and answers regarding the CARES Act coronavirus-related relief for retirement plans. The coronavirus-related distribution and loan rules generally...more
The final debt-equity regulations issued on May 13, 2020, finalize proposed section 385 regulations issued in 2016 without any substantive changes to the existing debt-equity regulations, and withdraw the temporary section...more
On Nov. 4, 2019, the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (the Service) published final debt-equity regulations (the Final Regulations) and an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (the...more
As we wrote in November 2018, the Treasury Department issued proposed regulations that significantly relaxed many rules governing hardship distributions from qualified plans, including eliminating requirements that employee...more
On October 31, 2018, the Treasury Department released proposed regulations (the “Proposed Regulations”) that reduce certain amounts otherwise includible in the taxable income of a corporate U.S. shareholder of a controlled...more
On April 2, 2018, the U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Notice 2018-29, "Guidance Regarding the Implementation of New Section 1446(f) for Partnership Interests That Are Not Publicly...more
On December 4, 2017, the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Notice 2017-73, new proposed guidance for donor advised funds (DAFs). The public has the opportunity to comment on the following proposed...more
The Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) has issued Notice 2017-73 (the “Notice”) which outlines approaches the Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) and the IRS are considering with respect to the regulation of certain...more
The Department of Treasury has issued final regulations that simplify the rules that allow retiring participants to simultaneously elect a partial lump sum and a partial annuity from a defined benefit pension plan. Under the...more
If you are one of the lucky few employees who participate in an employer’s defined benefit retirement plan, you previously had to choose between receiving your benefits in a lump sum or in annuity payments. However, in the...more
Key Points - - Final, temporary and proposed regulations issued on October 5, 2016, address complex rules dealing with partnership disguised sales and debt allocation rules under Sections 707 and 752 of the Internal...more
On August 3, 2015, the U.S. Department of Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued final regulations under Section 706(d), providing rules for determining the partners’ distributive shares of...more
On September 14, 2015, the government released Notice 2015-59 and Rev. Proc. 2015-43, both relating to Section 355 spinoffs. They respond to government concerns about spinoff transactions that result in the distributing...more
On July 22, 2015, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released proposed regulations under Section 707(a)(2)(A) (the proposed regulations) which would treat certain partnership...more