REFRESH Nonprofit Basics: Insider Transactions and Nonprofits
Nonprofit Basics: IRS 10-Course Charity Workshop
Nonprofit Basics: Unrelated Business Income Tax: Modifications and Exceptions - Part 2
Nonprofit Basics: Unrelated Business Income Tax: Basic Rules for Charities - Part 1
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - IRS Clarifies Emergency Distributions Tax Exceptions
Nonprofit Quick Tip: State Filings in North Carolina and South Carolina
REFRESH Nonprofit Basics: Election Year Issues for Private Foundations and Public Charities - Private Foundation Advocacy
REFRESH Nonprofit Basics: Election Year Issues for Private Foundations and Public Charities - Legislative Lobbying and Advocacy Rules for Public Charities
REFRESH Nonprofit Basics: Election Year Issues for Private Foundations and Public Charities - Candidate Campaign Intervention
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 176: Tax Exempt Healthcare Entities with Jim Pool, Maynard Nexsen Health Care Attorney
Scrutiny Around the Hospital Tax-Exempt Status
Nonprofit Basics: What Nonprofits Need To Know About Expenditure Responsibility Grant Requirements
Podcast - Charity Care: A Discussion on Tax-Exempt Hospitals
Nonprofit Basics: Document Retention Policies and Subpoenas, and a Conversation With Aviva Gilbert on Why Good Policies Matter
Nonprofit Basics: Election Year Issues for Private Foundations and Public Charities Part 3: Private Foundation Approaches to Policy Advocacy Allowed by the Internal Revenue Code
Nonprofit Basics: Election Year Issues for Private Foundations and Public Charities Part 2: Legislative Lobbying Activities by Public Charities
Nonprofit Basics: Election Year Issues for Private Foundations and Public Charities Part 1: Candidate Campaign Intervention
Change of Control: Golden Parachute Rules in the Sale Process
Code Section 409A - Six Month Delay
On January 10, 2025, the Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) and the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) issued proposed regulations regarding the provisions of the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (“SECURE 2.0”) that relate to...more
Section 305 of SECURE 2.0 added rules for self-correcting a new category of retirement plan errors under the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (“ECPRS”). Specifically, Section 305 allows an “eligible inadvertent...more
The IRS recently published its final regulations addressing changes to Tax Code Section 401(a)(9), relating to required minimum distributions (RMDs), under the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019...more
On July 18th, the Internal Revenue Service released final regulations regarding required minimum distributions (RMDs) from retirement accounts. The final regulations reflect changes to the Internal Revenue Code made by the...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently extended relief with respect to certain post-death required minimum distributions (RMDs) under Internal Revenue Code Section 401(a)(9)....more
Investment managers who manage private employee benefit plan and individual retirement account (collectively, “Plan”) assets have long relied on Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 84-14 (commonly referred to as the “QPAM...more
Check out our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of November 6, 2023 – November 10, 2023...more
As part of our ongoing series on tax issues for accounting firms, this article provides information on retirement or deferred compensation arrangements, the related rules of Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code, and how...more
Another Mess- Congress has only a few days to avert a “shutdown” of the federal government. It’s not looking good in the House, as Speaker McCarthy has struggled to bring certain members of the majority into line, while...more
On March 21, 2023, the Department of Treasury (“Treasury”) and Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) released Notice 2023-27, which announced that Treasury and the IRS intend to issue guidance related to the treatment of certain...more
At the end of 2022, the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (together, the “IRS”) issued two sets of guidance – a final rule and a proposed rule – addressing the application of certain provisions of...more
Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of November 14, 2022 – November 18, 2022...more
The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) provides for 100% premium assistance to certain qualified beneficiaries for continuation coverage under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) for periods of...more
Barron’s recently reported in an article called The Real Cost of Healthcare in Retirement. The article suggests that seniors with adequate Medicare coverage will spend on average $260,000 per couple on healthcare from age 65...more
The Paycheck Protection Program money is spent, the temporary $600 weekly unemployment supplement is over, and we still need money. We could draw on our savings, sell investments, or take out a loan against our home. Usually,...more
Congress recently passed significant legislation affecting employer-sponsored employee benefit plans. The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act of 2019 (H.R. 1994) was passed by the Senate on...more
The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (the SECURE Act), signed into law on Dec. 20, 2019, will have a wide-ranging impact on tax-qualified retirement plans and individual retirement accounts,...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently issued its annual update regarding dollar limitations on contributions and benefits applicable to tax-qualified retirement and welfare plans for 2017. ...more
The Internal Revenue Service recently issued Revenue Procedure 2016-37, which sets forth in detail the significant changes to the IRS’s determination letter program for qualified retirement plans, which we have written about...more
The Department of the Treasury issued its 2015-2016 Priority Guidance Plan detailing projects that it intends on dedicating resources to in the coming year. There are numerous employee benefits-related items in the plan....more
As described in a prior alert, the IRS issued Notice 2015-49, which abruptly announces the IRS’s intention to prohibit lump-sum cashout windows for pension plan retirees already in pay status. The IRS intends to prohibit...more
Retirement Plans - IRS Issues Guidance on Benefit Suspension Voting under MPRA - As we have written in prior alerts, the Multiemployer Pension Reform Act of 2014 (MPRA) permits trustees of financially troubled...more
Major Revisions to Qualified Plan Determination Letter Process Announced - Effective January 1, 2017, the staggered five-year determination letter remedial amendment cycles for individually designed plans will be...more
The Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") announced, on July 21, 2015, a major curtailment of its determination letter program for individually designed qualified retirement plans ("Individually Designed Plans") that will impose...more
The IRS issued Notice 2015-49 (the "Notice") on July 9, 2015, effectively ending the ability of sponsors of qualified defined benefit pension plans ("DB Plan") to "de-risk" their plans by offering participants in pay status...more