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Retirement Plan Internal Revenue Service Employer Liability Issues

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Every Retirement Plan Needs Practices and Procedures for Self-Correction

Administering a retirement plan is a complicated task fraught with potential missteps. Fortunately, employers are now able to self-correct most errors and thereby avoid the considerable time and expense of filing an...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

How SECURE 2.0 Options Impact Form W-2 and Form 1099-R Reporting

IRS reminds employers that implementing certain optional retirement plan provisions of SECURE 2.0 affect Form W‑2 and Form 1099‑R reporting starting in 2023 - The IRS recently issued Fact Sheet 2024‑18 to highlight how...more

Holland & Hart - The Benefits Dial

You Live, You Learn… Correcting “Qualification Failures” under the Self-Correction Program

The Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (“EPCRS”), as set forth in Revenue Procedure 2021-30, allows plan sponsors to correct “Qualification Failures,” which are defined as any plan document, operational, demographic...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

IRS Announces Phase 2 of Pre-Examination Compliance Pilot Program

Recently, the IRS announced phase two of its expansion of the Pre-Examination Compliance Pilot Program. Under the pilot program, an employer may limit or entirely avoid an impending IRS audit if they promptly correct any...more

Morgan Lewis

IRS Proposes Long-Term, Part-Time Employee Regulations

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On November 24, 2023, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) proposed long-awaited regulations providing guidance on the required coverage of long-term, part-time employees (LTPTEs) under the Setting Every Community Up for...more

Troutman Pepper

Long-Term Part-Time Employee Eligibility Rules Now in Effect – Are You Ready?

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The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act (SECURE 1.0) requires plans to permit employees who work at least 500 hours but less than 1,000 hours in three consecutive 12-month periods to make elective...more

McDermott Will & Emery

When It Comes to Vesting, IRS Says Once a Long-Term, Part-Time Employee, Always a Long-Term, Part-Time Employee

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In this series of articles, we explore the implications of the long-term, part-time employee rules under the SECURE Act and SECURE 2.0 and the impact those rules have on employers and their workforces. Under the SECURE...more

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New Rules Make Tracking Long-Term, Part-Time Employee Service a Full-Time Job

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In this series of articles, we explore the implications of the long-term, part-time employee rules under the SECURE Act and SECURE 2.0 and the impact those rules have on employers and their workforces. Under the SECURE...more

McDermott Will & Emery

IRS Confirms Same Hours-Counting Rules Still Add Up for Long-Term, Part-Time Employees

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In this series of articles, we explore the implications of the long-term, part-time employee rules under the SECURE Act and SECURE 2.0 and the impact those rules have on employers and their workforces. Following the...more

McDermott Will & Emery

IRS Says Keep Those Class Exclusions Classy Under Long-Term, Part-Time Employee Rules

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In this series of articles, we explore the implications of the long-term, part-time employee rules under the SECURE Act and SECURE 2.0 and the impact those rules have on employers and their workforces. Together, the...more

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

Benefits Monthly Minute UPDATE: Secure 2.0 Implementation Guidance

The IRS just couldn’t wait for Christmas to gift everyone Miscellaneous Changes Under the Secure 2.0 Act of 2022! Notice 2024-2 is meant to provide guidance on discreet issues to assist with SECURE 2.0 implementation...more

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

Benefits Monthly Minute - November 2023

The November Monthly Minute digs into the new proposed LTPT regulations, 2024 benefit limits, and the NBA health plan fraud verdict. Indigestion from Turkey and Stuffing or the IRS’ Proposed LTPT Regulations? ...more

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Establishing Practices and Procedures to Support Self-Correction of Operational Failures

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The self-correction of retirement plan operational failures under IRS correction principles has been conditioned upon a plan sponsor’s establishment of compliance practices and procedures since the creation of the Employee...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Special Report: SECURE 2.0 Act and the Future of the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System

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The Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS) allows employers to correct errors involving the maintenance and operation of tax-qualified retirement plans. Depending on the severity...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Final Changes Announced to Forms 5500 and 5500-SF

The Department of Labor (DOL) announced that it has finalized, together with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (PBGC), the third and final round of revisions to the Form 5500 Annual...more

McDermott Will & Emery

New IRS Guidance for Tax-Qualified Pension Plans with Rehired Retirees Due to COVID-19

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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently updated its guidance for retiree distributions under a defined benefit plan. Specifically, the new IRS guidance addresses rehires following a bona fide retirement due to COVID-19. ...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Employee Benefits-Related Limits For 2022

Annually, the Internal Revenue Service, the Social Security Administration and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation adjust for cost-of-living increases certain limitations that impact employee benefit plans. These...more

McDermott Will & Emery

IRS Announces 2022 Retirement Plan Limits

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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently announced the cost-of-living adjustments to the applicable dollar limits for retirement plans for 2022. Most of the dollar limits currently in effect for 2021 will increase, with...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Rehiring Employees by March 31, 2021 Could Prevent Partial Plan Terminations

The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, enacted on December 27, 2020 (the CAA), includes limited relief pertaining to the partial termination of a qualified retirement plan that may have been inadvertently triggered by...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Retirement Plan Provisions in the New COVID-19 Relief Acts

The recently enacted COVID-19 Related Tax Relief Act of 2020 and the Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2020, both of which are part of the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021,” includes the following...more

Perkins Coie

Employee Benefit Provisions in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021

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President Donald Trump signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (the Omnibus Bill) on December 27, 2020. The Omnibus Bill has received a great deal of media coverage due to its massive size (nearly 6,000...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Rehiring Employees by End of 2020 Could Prevent Partial Plan Terminations

In our May 2020 client alert, we addressed the possibility that COVID-19 layoffs could inadvertently cause a partial termination of a company’s qualified retirement plan. Recently issued IRS guidance provides that if...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

ERISA Newsletter - Fourth Quarter 2019

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Editor's Overview - Happy New Year. We wrap-up 2019 with an article that reflects on significant developments in ERISA litigation during 2019, and takes a look at what's on the horizon for 2020. The courts (at all levels)...more

Groom Law Group, Chartered

SECURE Act Testing Relief for Closed/Frozen Defined Benefit Plans

In recent years, many defined benefit (“DB”) pension plan sponsors have taken action to limit ongoing coverage and benefit accruals of their DB plans.  Over time these plans may have difficulty continuing to satisfy the...more

Snell & Wilmer

2019 End of Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” List (Part 1) Health & Welfare

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As 2019 comes to an end, we are pleased to present our traditional End of Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” Lists. This year, we present our “To Do” Lists in four separate Employee Benefits Updates. This Part 1 covers year-end health...more

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