The Internal Revenue Service is taking an increasingly closer look at the retirement plan practices of large employers. Recently enacted initiatives by the IRS include the Executive Compensation Plan Audit Program (“ECPA Program”) and the Employee Plan Team Audit Program (“EPTA Program”). ECPAs will examine eight different aspects of executive compensation issues as part of a company’s tax audit. The EPTA Program is focused on large retirement plans which have been defined by the IRS as plans with at least 2,500 participants.

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