News & Analysis as of

Internal Revenue Service Employee Benefits Pensions

The United States Internal Revenue Service is a bureau of the United States Department of the Treasury. The IRS is charged with collecting revenue and enforcing the Internal Revenue Code.  
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Does Your Retirement Plan Need a 'PLESA'?

Pension-Linked Emergency Savings Accounts (“PLESAs”) are a special retirement plan feature created under SECURE ACT 2.0. PLESAs were first permitted to be made available to participants as of January 1, 2024. PLESAs, which...more

Morgan Lewis - ML Benefits

Reminder to Multiemployer Pension Plan Administrators: New Federal Income Tax Withholding Election Forms Are Mandatory

In January 2022, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) changed the withholding election rules applicable to distributions from pension plans (a term that includes 401(k) plans, money purchase pension plans and defined benefit...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Employee Benefits-Related Limits For 2024

This chart sets forth some of the annually adjusted dollar limits that impact employee benefits, as published by the Internal Revenue Service, the Social Security Administration and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation....more

Dickinson Wright

Mastering Retirement Plan Forfeitures: A Deep Dive into IRS’s 2023 Proposals & Fiduciary Litigation Trends

Dickinson Wright on

When a participant terminates employment without being fully vested in their qualified retirement plan account, the non-vested portion of the account is a “forfeiture.” While forfeitures are a common element of most...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

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

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on

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

Freeman Law

The Cautionary Tale of the Malta Pension Plan: First, Civil Audits, Now Criminal Investigations

Freeman Law on

Few things scare a taxpayer more than the IRS knocking on their door. But when the taxpayer realizes that the person knocking on the door is a Special Agent of the Criminal Investigation Division (“CID”) of the IRS, well…...more

Proskauer - Employee Benefits & Executive...

Self-Help: The IRS Provides Interim Guidance for Self-Correction under the SECURE Act 2.0

The IRS recently issued Notice 2023-43 providing new interim guidance for self-correction of plan errors. This guidance applies to corrections made prior to the anticipated issuance of revisions to the Employee Plans...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Final Changes Announced to Forms 5500 and 5500-SF

The Department of Labor (DOL) announced that it has finalized, together with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (PBGC), the third and final round of revisions to the Form 5500 Annual...more

Groom Law Group, Chartered

IRS Rules That Payment of 401(h) Account Benefits to Pension-Eligible Active Participants Won’t Jeopardize Plan Qualification

A recent IRS letter ruling provides helpful clarification on the interaction of in-service distributions to active employees (Code section 401(a)(36)) and the requirement that Code section 401(h) accounts provide only retiree...more

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

Benefits Monthly Minute - January 2023

The Senate ushered in the New Year with a bang by passing SECURE 2.0 on December 22, 2022. SECURE 2.0 includes many updates to the sweeping changes brought about under 2019’s original SECURE Act legislation. The following are...more

Proskauer - Employee Benefits & Executive...

IRS Opens Determination Letter Program to Individually Designed 403(b) Plans

On October 21st, the IRS announced changes to its qualified plan determination letter program. Most notably, the program has been expanded to include section 403(b) tax-sheltered annuity plans (“403(b) plans”). Although...more

Proskauer - Employee Benefits & Executive...

IRS Announces 2023 Increases to Qualified Retirement Plan Limits

On October 21st, the IRS released a number of additional inflation adjustments for 2023, including to certain limits for qualified retirement plans. Perhaps most notably, the annual limit for pre-tax and Roth contributions...more

Kilpatrick

Secure Act 2.0 – Summary of Key Provisions

Kilpatrick on

The House and Senate are moving forward on several versions of legislation, which are collectively known as the “Secure Act 2.0” because they would build off of the Secure Act, the last major retirement plan legislation...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Weekly IRS Roundup May 8 – May 14, 2022

McDermott Will & Emery on

Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of May 8, 2022 – May 14, 2022... May 10, 2022: The IRS issued a news release, announcing that free...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Qualified Retirement Plan Distributions and the Impact of COVID-19

Fox Rothschild LLP on

Under the terms of most qualified retirement plans, distribution is available only upon separation from service (whether voluntary or involuntary) or attainment of a specified age. The possibility of rehire after such a...more

Groom Law Group, Chartered

Upcoming Deadlines for Plan Sponsors – February 2022

Upcoming deadline alert! Plan sponsors should prepare for these upcoming February 2022 deadlines to ensure federal compliance and avoid penalties....more

Groom Law Group, Chartered

Upcoming Deadlines for Plan Sponsors – January 2022

Upcoming deadline alert! Plan sponsors should prepare for these upcoming January 2022 deadlines to ensure federal compliance and avoid penalties....more

Morgan Lewis - ML Benefits

IRS Guidance Clarifies Pandemic Rehiring Need Not Always Affect Retirement Benefits

The IRS recently issued FAQs to address workforce issues and labor shortages resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The guidance seems to be in response to well-publicized labor shortages affecting schools and the education...more

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,...

IRS Lifts Barriers to Help Address Labor Shortage Due to COVID-19

As employers across the country are facing critical labor shortages, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has stepped in, attempting to help by removing barriers that may have previously stopped employers from rehiring retirees...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Withdrawal Liability – Real Property Presumed A Trade Or Business

Jackson Lewis P.C. on

An employer’s permanent cessation of contributions to a multiemployer pension plan can trigger withdrawal liability. This liability may reach affiliated trades or businesses with sufficient common ownership to be under...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Weekly IRS Roundup June 21 – June 25, 2021

McDermott Will & Emery on

Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of June 21, 2021 – June 25, 2021. Additionally, for continuing updates on the tax impact of COVID-19,...more

Groom Law Group, Chartered

IRS Guidance on U.S.-Swiss Tax Treaty Pension and Retirement Provisions Includes IRAs

The U.S. has issued an announcement with guidance on how the 2009 amendment to the tax treaty between the U.S. and Switzerland applies to pension and retirement arrangements of both countries....more

Foley & Lardner LLP

ARPA Funding Relief for Single Employer Defined Benefit Pension Plans

Foley & Lardner LLP on

On March 11, 2021 President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act (Public Law 117-2) ("ARPA"). Among its many provisions, the statute contains "funding relief" for single employer defined benefit pension plans. This...more

Groom Law Group, Chartered

Significant Changes to 2022 Pension and IRA Reports Reflected on Draft Withholding Forms

On March 12, the IRS released the latest versions of the 2022 draft withholding forms for pension, IRA and annuity payments. While pension withholding elections have historically all been made on Form W-4P, that form will be...more

Groom Law Group, Chartered

New DOL Safe Harbor for E-Delivery of Retirement Plan Notices

Plan sponsors and recordkeepers have long wished for updated electronic delivery or e-delivery rules that permit electronic delivery as the default form of distribution, and one that could be applied uniformly for all notices...more

93 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 4

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide