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The Burr Broadcast April 2023 - The Official End of COVID-19 Emergencies
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The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, H.R. 133 (the “CAA”) signed into law by the President on Dec. 27, 2020 and a variety of IRS guidance issued in the first week of 2021 mean that employers entering the new year have...more
As a 401(k) plan sponsor, you need to know that plan errors happen all the time. A 401(k) plan has so many moving parts, so that means something might break. The problem here is that while things can happen without control,...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (“2017 Tax Act”) includes a provision that changed the rollover rules for certain plan loan offset distributions and that may not be well known to retirement plan sponsors and participants. ...more
On April 19, 2019, the IRS issued Revenue Procedure 2019-19 (the “Revenue Procedure”), the latest update to and restatement of the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System, its retirement plans correction program....more
Whether A Plan Sponsor Should Hire An ERISA §3(16) Administrator. It's not for every plan. Running a business is a complicated activity. You have to be an expert in your field, service, or specialty. In order to get your...more
When drafting new 401(k) plans, I always recommend allowing for a loan provision. I know there are quite a few plan providers who don’t want any provisions that allow “leakage” of retirement assets, but I believe that when...more
When Hurricanes Harvey and Irma made landfall in Texas and Florida, they gave rise not only to widespread property damage, but to a humanitarian disaster as well. The massive storms have left scores dead and thousands...more
Thanks to the damage caused by Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Department of Labor (DOL), and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) have granted extensions of certain...more
Announcement 2017-11 (Announcement) provides that a tax-qualified employer retirement plan may treat a distribution to a current or former employee covered by the Announcement as on account of hardship or an unforeseeable...more
The IRS announced last week that it will allow victims of Hurricane Harvey and their families to more easily access assets held in employer-sponsored retirement plans. Specifically, the IRS will allow certain retirement plans...more
The IRS just issued a memo to its auditors approving two different methods for calculating the statutory limitation on available loan amounts when a participant takes a new loan within 12 months of having paid off another...more
When I draft a new 401(k) plan for a client, I’ll recommend a loan provision even though it can be an administrative headache. The reason that I add it because I think participants need to have access to money if in their...more