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Income taxes are taxes that are collected on the individual earnings of persons or entities. Depending on the jurisdiction, income taxes are calculated and collected in a variety of ways. Some tax systems collect... more +
Income taxes are taxes that are collected on the individual earnings of persons or entities. Depending on the jurisdiction, income taxes are calculated and collected in a variety of ways. Some tax systems collect income taxes based on a progressive scheme, while others may utilize a proportional or regressive framework. less -
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2024 Employee Benefit Limits Plus 6 Best Practices for Employers

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Get Ready For The New Year Ahead - Employees can contribute more pre-tax dollars next year to their retirement savings accounts, including 401(k) and 403(b) plans, according to an IRS announcement made on November 1. Your...more

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Want to Put More Away in Your 401(k)? Qualified Plan Limits Generally Increase in 2024

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Seyfarth Synopsis: The IRS just announced the 2024 annual limits that will apply to tax-qualified retirement plans. For a third year in a row, the IRS increased the annual limits, allowing participants to save even more in...more

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Reminder: New Tax Forms for Retirement Plan Payment Withholding Effective January 1, 2023

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Retirement plan sponsors need to utilize updated Form W-4P (for periodic pension and annuity payments) and new Form W-4R (for nonperiodic payments and eligible rollover distributions) for income tax withholding elections...more

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Weekly IRS Roundup November 21 – November 25, 2022

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Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of November 21, 2022 – November 25, 2022...more

Flaster Greenberg PC

New Retirement Plan Hardship Distribution Rules: What You Need to Know

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The IRS recently amended the rules applicable to hardship distributions from 401(k) and 403(b) plans. The new hardship distribution regulation relaxes some of the restrictions on the availability of hardship distributions...more

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Still Tax, Even Without the Distributed Cash

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The IRS recently issued guidance on the tax treatment, withholding and reporting for required distributions from tax-qualified retirement plans. Plan sponsors should contact their retirement vendors and trustees to ensure...more

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Finally, Hardship Distribution Regulations are Final

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The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (collectively referred to hereafter as “IRS”) on September 23, 2019 published the final regulations on hardship distributions, finalizing the regulations proposed in...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

IRS Finalizes Revised Hardship Regulations - Employee Benefits Alert

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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has finalized revisions to the regulations governing hardship distributions under 401(k) and 403(b) plans. The final regulations make some subtle but important changes to the regulations...more

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Recap of Change to Retirement Plan Rollover Rules for Plan Loan Offsets

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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

Laner Muchin, Ltd.

IRS No Longer Prohibits Lump Sum Payouts To Retirees In Pay Status

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The IRS previously issued several Private Letter Rulings permitting defined benefit plans to offer lump sum windows during which retirees receiving annuity payments could elect to receive the actuarial equivalent of their...more

Ruder Ware

The IRS Says Never Mind – You Can Have Your Higher HSA Limit!

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I previously blogged about how unusual it was for the IRS to implement a retroactive change to a previously announced limit. As you may remember, the $6,900 limit on HSA contributions for a taxpayer eligible for a family high...more

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RMDs: Another Concern for 403(b) Plans

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Section 403(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”) authorizes a type of retirement plan that can be sponsored by certain tax exempt organizations (e.g., a Code Section 501(c)(3) organization,...more

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IRS Announces 2015 Cost-of-Living Increases to Benefit Plan Limits

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On October 23, 2014, the Internal Revenue Service announced cost of living adjustments affecting the limitations applicable to pension and other retirement plans, in IR 2014-99. Some of the limitations remain unchanged...more

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New IRS Guidance Regarding Same-Sex Spouses: Employer Action Needed

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On June 26, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court, in the landmark case, United States v. Windsor, found the provisions of that portion of the “Defense of Marriage Act” (“DOMA”) which provided that only opposite-sex individuals could...more

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