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Internal Revenue Service Employee Benefits Mergers

The United States Internal Revenue Service is a bureau of the United States Department of the Treasury. The IRS is charged with collecting revenue and enforcing the Internal Revenue Code.  
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What Private Companies Need To Consider in 2024: Top 10 Legal Issues

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Private companies and their owners face ever-evolving challenges as the market sees new regulations, new deal trends, and new risks in 2024. Below are 10 issues that the owners and leaders of privately held companies should...more

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Traps for the Unwary: Code Section 410(b) Coverage Testing Concerns in Transactions

With a recent uptick in mergers and transactions, we thought it would be worthwhile to provide a refresher on some coverage testing issues related to retirement plans. Although a seemingly mundane topic, coverage testing...more

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Limited Ability to Submit Your Individually Designed Plan for a Determination Letter

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• Effective Sept. 1, 2019, the sponsors of certain retirement plans may submit their plans to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for review of a determination letter application. • Revenue Procedure 2019-20 expands the IRS...more

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IRS Announces Limited Expansion of the Determination Letter Program for Individually Designed Plans

Since the end of the IRS’s cyclical determination letter program for individually designed retirement plans in 2017, plan sponsors have been able to request favorable determination letters for individually designed plans only...more

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IRS Expands Determination Letter Program on a Limited Basis For Certain Individually Designed Plans

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On May 1, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued guidance re-opening its storied determination letter program to hybrid plans and certain plans impacted by plan mergers....more

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IRS Implements Prospective Expansion of Determination Letter Program to Merged Plans

The IRS has announced a limited expansion of its determination letter program. Beginning Sept. 1, 2019, the IRS will accept determination letter (“DL”) applications for individually designed merged plans....more

Poyner Spruill LLP

IRS Determination Letter Program Broadens Its Reach

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On May 1, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced an expansion of the existing determination letter submission program. Previously the IRS has only allowed submissions of initial retirement plan qualifications and plan...more

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IRS Announces Limited Expansion of its Determination Letter Program for Individually Designed Retirement Plans – But Questions...

On May 1, 2019, the IRS released Revenue Procedure 2019-20 which provides for a limited-scope expansion of its determination letter program for individually designed plans. Beginning on September 1, 2019, the IRS will accept...more

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Reopening the Floodgates: IRS Announces Expanded Determination Letter Program

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As we previously reported, the Internal Revenue Service (the “Service”) scaled back its determination letter program for individually designed retirement plans effective as of January 1, 2017. In the intervening years, the...more

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