IRS Notice 2020-51, released last week, provides additional guidance on the waiver in 2020 of required minimum distributions (RMDs) from defined contribution retirement plans and IRAs, and the interaction of this waiver with...more
Obviously, qualified retirement plans such as 401(k) plans and IRAs are meant to provide retirement savings. However, those who don’t have to draw heavily, if at all, on plan and IRA assets can preserve a tidy nest egg for...more
The Internal Revenue Service has offered some reprieve to individuals who receive a distribution from a retirement plan or an individual retirement arrangement (IRA) and inadvertently miss the 60-day time limit for rolling...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued Revenue Procedure 2016-47, which provides for a new self-certification procedure for participants who receive retirement plan distributions but inadvertently miss the 60-day time...more
When the taxpayer in PLR 201547010 decided to invest his IRA assets in a partnership, he forgot to check whether his IRA provider was able to hold an interest in a partnership as an investment in the IRAs for which it served...more