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#WorkforceWednesday: SECURE 2.0 Act - Navigating New Retirement Plan Provisions in 2024 - Employment Law This Week®
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Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation: Getting Ready for 2024 - Health and Welfare Plan Developments — Special Edition Podcast
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The SECURE Act 2.0, enacted on December 29, 2022, is the most significant piece of legislation affecting retirement plans in many years. One provision in the Act causing headaches for plan sponsors, payroll providers and...more
On August 25, the Internal Revenue Service issued Notice 2023-62 (the Notice) delaying implementation of a provision of the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 that, commencing in 2024, would have required catch-up contributions by...more
With a multitude of questions surrounding implementation and administration, late on a summer Friday afternoon, the IRS issued Notice 2023-62 (Notice), providing Plan Sponsors with a transition period until 2026 to implement...more
On December 29, 2022, President Joe Biden signed the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (“SECURE 2.0”) into law as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023. SECURE 2.0 includes a wide range of changes geared toward expanding...more
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (“Appropriations Act”) was signed by President Biden and became law on December 29, 2022. Included in the Appropriations Act is the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (“Secure Act”), which...more
The long-awaited sequel to the SECURE Act enacted in 2019 is finally here. On December 29, 2022, President Joe Biden signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, which includes the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (“SECURE 2.0”...more
On December 29, 2022, President Joe Biden signed the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (“SECURE 2.0”), into law as a part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023. SECURE 2.0 includes a wide range of changes geared toward...more
The SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (SECURE 2.0) contains several provisions that allow the federal government to have its cake (more tax dollars) and eat it too (more retirement savings, easing Social Security challenges). With...more
The Build Back Better Act, the “social infrastructure” bill that was approved by the House of Representatives on November 19, 2021, includes new restrictions on so-called “backdoor Roth” conversions. Accordingly, if the...more
As we all cope with the new challenges posed by COVID-19, we wanted to review opportunities currently available amid this unusual time. ESTATE PLANNING - The current pandemic has caused U.S. markets to lose...more
Overview - For many years, the name of the game in retirement planning for income and estate tax purposes has been to maximize the tax deferral of qualified retirement and IRA accounts while preserving the ability to...more
On December 15, 2017, the House and Senate conference committee agreed on the terms of the final tax reform bill, previously referred to as the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” (the “Act”), which was subsequently approved by both...more
On December 22, 2017, the tax reform bill, informally known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Act”), was signed by President Trump. As we noted in our prior OnPoint (available here) with respect to earlier versions of the...more
The Committee on Ways and Means yesterday released the proposed Republican tax reform bill, titled the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act." Although the proposed bill makes major changes to individual and corporate tax provisions in many...more
Following Hawaii’s enactment of legislation recognizing same-sex marriage as of and after December 2, 2013 a number of additional pieces of guidance were also issued. Internal Revenue Service’s Frequently Asked Questions...more
In furtherance of Section 902 of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (ATRA), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently issued Notice 2013-74 updating prior IRS guidance regarding so-called “in-plan” Roth conversions...more
On December 11, 2013, the IRS issued IRS Notice 2013-74 which provides guidance on in-plan Roth rollovers. An in-plan Roth rollover is a rollover within a Section 401(k), Section 403(b) or governmental Section 457(b) plan to...more
On January 2 , 2013, President Obama signed the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (H.R. 8) (the “Relief Act”) into law. While the principal intention of the Relief Act was to avert the key elements of the “fiscal cliff” by...more
On January 2, 2013, President Obama signed into law the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (the “Act”), more commonly known as the fiscal cliff legislation. Among other things, the Act amended the tax code to remove some of...more
The newly enacted American Taxpayer Relief Act (H.R. 8) includes a significant new opportunity to perform “in-plan” conversions of pretax dollars to Roth (after-tax) dollars of funds held in defined contribution retirement...more