PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - SECURE 2.0 Act Relief for Plan Corrections
Generally, for a tax qualified retirement plan to be adopted, the plan document must be signed and dated by the sponsoring employer and retained. However, in Val Lanes Recreation Center Corp. v. Commissioner of Internal...more
• 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
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
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
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
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
Beginning February 1, 2017, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) stopped accepting applications for determination letters for individually designed plans, other than for new plans and terminating plans. This change in IRS...more
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
For the past 15 years, it’s been apparent that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) wanted to be out of the favorable determination letter business. Over time, the IRS was limiting when they would issue determination letters....more
On January 2, 2018, the IRS published its annual bulletin that updates procedures for requesting rulings, determinations, and other guidance from the IRS. As in past years, the bulletin includes new user fees for...more
Editor's Overview - This month, we look at the implications of the two federal district court cases from California that applied the ban on discretionary clauses typically found in ERISA plans to self-insured plans. The...more
With the looming end of the determination letter program as we know it, the IRS has issued an updated Revenue Procedure for the Employee Plans Compliance Resolutions System (EPCRS). Released on September 29, 2016, Rev. Proc....more