Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation: Getting Ready for 2024 - Qualified Plans — Special Edition Podcast
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The Internal Revenue Service announced the 2024 cost-of-living adjustments to the dollar limitations for qualified retirement plans and other benefits, and the Social Security Administration announced its own cost-of-living...more
The Internal Revenue Service released the cost-of-living adjusted qualified retirement plan and welfare plan limitations effective January 1, 2024. For ease of reference and comparison to prior years, we have placed the...more
On November 1, 2023, the 2024 calendar year cost-of-living adjustments to the contribution and compensation limits for tax-qualified retirement plans were released by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in Notice 2023-75....more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently announced the cost-of-living adjustments to the applicable dollar limits for various employer-sponsored retirement and welfare plans for 2024. Certain health and welfare plan limits...more
The President signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, which included SECURE Act 2.0, on December 29, 2022. SECURE Act 2.0 has over 90 provisions, some major and some minor; some mandatory and some optional; some...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: In November 2022, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Revenue Procedure 2022-40, which made modifications impacting the remedial amendment period for both individually-designed qualified 401(a) plans...more
As featured in #WorkforceWednesday: The SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (“SECURE Act 2.0”) is a sweeping piece of retirement legislation with complex new provisions. This week, we highlight a few of the SECURE Act 2.0’s key changes...more
On December 29, 2022, President Biden signed into law the federal omnibus spending bill titled the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023. Included in the omnibus bill is the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022, which builds on the tax...more
For the second time in approximately three years, Congress passed broad legislation with sweeping impacts on retirement savings programs. The SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (SECURE 2.0) was included as part of the Consolidated...more
Besides ensuring the federal government remains fully funded, President Biden’s signature Thursday on the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2023 (CAA 23) contains several provisions that will directly impact health and...more
President Biden is expected to sign the 2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) this week. The law, which passed the House and Senate on Dec. 23 and Dec. 22, respectively, contains significant changes to employer-provided...more
The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently issued Revenue Procedure 2022-40 to expand the IRS’s determination letter program to include individually designed 403(b) plans. Previously, the IRS’s determination letter...more
Plan administrators should review actions to be taken before the end of 2022 and focus on what to expect for 2023. This checklist addresses plan amendments, notices and other considerations for qualified retirement plans,...more
The IRS has announced the 2023 annual dollar limitations for retirement plans based on the applicable cost-of-living adjustment guidelines, with increases in many of the limits. The annual limit for elective deferrals...more
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
The Internal Revenue Code (the "Code") imposes contribution limits on "qualified plans," a term that encompasses 401(k) plans and other less commonly-known retirement plans. The Code also provides a mechanism to adjust for...more
On October 21, 2022 the Internal Revenue Service announced the cost-of-living adjustments for the various qualified retirement plan limits. All of the limits shown below have increased (in some cases significantly) from last...more
Qualified retirement plans will experience unusually sharp increases to compensation and contribution limitations for 2023 compared to adjustments in recent years. On October 21, 2022, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)...more
Organization Ideas For 401(k) Plan Sponsors To Limit Liability Organization tools always pop up for sale after New Year’s because a lot of people want to try to keep their resolutions. My local Costco always trots out the...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently issued needed relief to extend some amendment deadlines for non-governmental qualified retirement plans and 403(b) plans, and for individual retirement accounts (IRAs) under the...more
The IRS on Aug. 3, 2022, issued Notice 2022-33, which extends the deadlines for qualified retirement plans, 403(b) plans and governmental retirement plans (including 457(b) plans) to adopt amendments reflecting certain...more
Rev. Proc. 2002-4 listed the update for requesting Internal Revenue Service (IRS) determination letters, private letter rulings, and other tax advice on employee plan matters. ...more
As is tradition, we are happy to present our End of Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” Lists. We are publishing our “To Do” Lists in four separate Employee Benefits Updates. Part 1 covered year-end health and welfare plan issues. This...more
The Internal Revenue Service released the cost-of-living adjusted qualified retirement plan limitations effective January 1, 2022. For ease of reference and comparison to prior years, we have placed the adjusted limitations...more
On November 4, 2021, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Notice 2021-61, which sets forth the 2022 cost-of-living adjustments affecting dollar limits on benefits and contributions for qualified retirement plans. The...more