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IRS Pilots Pre-Examination Compliance Program for Retirement Plans

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In its recent June Employee Plans newsletter, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced the launch of a 90-day pre-examination compliance pilot program. Under the program, the IRS will notify a plan sponsor that its...more

McDermott Will & Emery

New IRS Pre-Audit Compliance Program for Retirement Plans

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Retirement plan sponsors should be aware of a new Internal Revenue Service (IRS) pilot program, which permits plan sponsors to conduct a pre-examination “check-up” of retirement plan administration before the IRS begins a...more

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

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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

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

New Fixer Upper Options for Retirement Plans: IRS Expands the EPCRS Self-Correction Program - Employee Benefits Alert

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In Revenue Procedure 2019-19, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) significantly expanded the availability of the Self-Correction Program (SCP) that plan sponsors may use to self-correct failures in their qualified retirement...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

IRS Expands Self-Correction of Retirement Plan Errors

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In guidance issued on April 19, 2019, the IRS expands the situations in which retirement plan sponsors can self-correct compliance failures without first having to seek IRS approval or paying a fee. Employers should be aware...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

IRS changes direction, issues new collection on plan correction

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On April 19, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Revenue Procedure 2019-19, which updates its Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS). The new EPCRS significantly expands the use of retroactive plan...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

IRS Expands Self-Correction Program for Retirement Plans

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In Revenue Procedure 2019-19 effective April 19, 2019, the IRS expanded a plan sponsor’s ability to Self-Correct certain retirement plan failures. This expansion makes it easier for plan sponsors to fix retirement plan...more

Perkins Coie

No Joke: EPCRS Voluntary Correction Program Goes Paperless on April 1, 2019

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Starting April Fools’ Day, all Voluntary Correction Program (VCP) submissions and fee payments under the IRS’s Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS) must be made online; the IRS will no longer process paper VCP...more

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IRS Updates Retirement Plan Correction Procedures

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On September 28, 2018, the IRS released Revenue Procedure 2018-52. The Revenue Procedure makes changes to the IRS Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (“EPCRS”), which is the IRS’ comprehensive correction program for...more

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IRS Updates EPCRS Plan Correction Procedure - Employee Benefits Alert

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Through Revenue Procedure 2018-52, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has recently updated its system of correction programs for retirement plans known as the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS). EPCRS permits...more

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April 30 Deadline to Restate Pre-Approved Plans

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Sponsors of pre-approved defined contribution retirement plans are generally required to sign new plan documents that incorporate changes required by the Pension Protection Act on or before April 30, 2016. Defined...more

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