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Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Every Retirement Plan Needs Practices and Procedures for Self-Correction

Administering a retirement plan is a complicated task fraught with potential missteps. Fortunately, employers are now able to self-correct most errors and thereby avoid the considerable time and expense of filing an...more

Holland & Hart - The Benefits Dial

You Live, You Learn… Correcting “Qualification Failures” under the Self-Correction Program

The Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (“EPCRS”), as set forth in Revenue Procedure 2021-30, allows plan sponsors to correct “Qualification Failures,” which are defined as any plan document, operational, demographic...more

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Establishing Practices and Procedures to Support Self-Correction of Operational Failures

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The self-correction of retirement plan operational failures under IRS correction principles has been conditioned upon a plan sponsor’s establishment of compliance practices and procedures since the creation of the Employee...more

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Alert: New IRS Retirement Plan Compliance Program

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Dear Plan Sponsor - Have you received a letter from the IRS with respect to your retirement plan? If so (or if not, but you want to be prepared in the event you do receive “the letter”), read on....more

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Plan Administrators of Retirement Plans Need to Prepare for New IRS Pre-Examination Compliance Pilot Program

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On June 3, 2022, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced a new pilot program aimed at qualified retirement plan compliance. Pursuant to the program, the IRS will issue a letter to the plan administrator which provides a...more

McDermott Will & Emery

New IRS Pre-Audit Compliance Program for Retirement Plans

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Retirement plan sponsors should be aware of a new Internal Revenue Service (IRS) pilot program, which permits plan sponsors to conduct a pre-examination “check-up” of retirement plan administration before the IRS begins a...more

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IRS Announces Retirement Plan Compliance Pilot Program

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Under the IRS Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS), as set forth in Revenue Procedure 2021-30, a plan that has been notified of an impending audit cannot remedy issues using the Voluntary Correction Program,...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

New IRS Compliance Program Should Be On Every Plan Sponsor’s Radar

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The IRS announced in its June 3 Employee Plans Newsletter a new 90-day Pre-Examination Compliance Pilot Program. Under the program, which is in effect, the IRS will notify an employer that it intends to audit the employer’s...more

Snell & Wilmer

New Ways to Self-Correct Overpayments Under EPCRS

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On July 16, 2021, IRS issued Revenue Procedure 2021-30 to update the Employee Plans Compliance Resolutions System (the “EPCRS”). The update in part expands the opportunities for plan sponsors to self-correct failures under...more

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IRS updates EPCRS

The IRS has updated the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS) with the release of Revenue Procedure 2021-30. The EPCRS is used to correct certain plan qualification failures. EPCRS contains the Self-Correction...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Revised IRS Correction Procedures (EPCRS) Include Helpful Changes

On July 16, 2021, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) published an updated version of its correction procedures for qualified retirement plans, Revenue Procedure 2021-30, the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Need a Do-Over? IRS Expands and Updates Qualified Plans Correction Guidance

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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Revenue Procedure 2021-30, which provides an updated version of the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS). EPCRS is the IRS’s comprehensive program for plan sponsors to...more

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EPCRS Provides More Retirement Plan Self-Correction Opportunities  

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On July 16, 2021 the IRS issued Revenue Procedure 2021-30, which modifies and supersedes Revenue Procedure 2019-19, expanding the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (“EPCRS”). EPCRS is a program for correcting...more

Morgan Lewis

Relaxed IRS Self-Correction Rules a Boon for Plan Sponsors—and an Opportunity to Correct Failures Now

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On July 16, 2021, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Revenue Procedure 2021-30, which made several important changes to the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS) and expanded the ability of plan...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

IRS goes for gold with EPCRS Expansion

Just in time for the Olympics, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is attempting to take a medal in the category of “long-form voluntary compliance programs”. The IRS issued Revenue Procedure 2021-30 (Rev. Proc. 2021-30),...more

Morgan Lewis

IRS Expands Self-Correction Procedures, but Eliminates Anonymous Voluntary Correction Program

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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) made important changes to the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS) in Revenue Procedure 2021-30 that are helpful for plan sponsors as they expand the ability of plan sponsors...more

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IRS Releases Revised Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System

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On Friday, July 16, 2021, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published the most recent revision to the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS) in Revenue Procedure 2021-30. Revenue Procedure 2021-30 supersedes and...more

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Compensation and Benefits Insights – June 2019

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On April 19, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) released Revenue Procedure 2019-19 (the “Revenue Procedure”) and a separate IRS Release (the “Release”) updating the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System...more

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Employers Now Have New Opportunities For Self-Correction Under EPCRS

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The Internal Revenue Service recently amended its Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS) to allow more retirement plan qualification failures to be self-corrected, including retroactive plan amendments. This is...more

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Limited Ability to Submit Your Individually Designed Plan for a Determination Letter

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• Effective Sept. 1, 2019, the sponsors of certain retirement plans may submit their plans to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for review of a determination letter application. • Revenue Procedure 2019-20 expands the IRS...more

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IRS Expands Self-Correction Program, Provides Welcome Relief for Plan Sponsors

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The IRS recently released an updated version of EPCRS, the IRS’s program for correcting errors that occur under tax-qualified retirement plans. The latest version of EPCRS makes it easier for plan sponsors to self-correct...more

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A Good 403(b) or a Bad 403(b)? A Question IRS Auditors Look to Answer

In each case, the answer depends on whether the document and operation are in compliance with the many technical requirements for section 403(b) plans. IRS officials have recently indicated that the IRS expects to launch...more

Snell & Wilmer

To Err is Human – To Forgive is Up to the IRS in Rev Proc 2019-19

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The IRS recently issued its latest version of the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (“EPCRS”) in Rev. Proc. 2019-19. The EPCRS is the IRS program that assists employers in correcting both operational and document...more

Burr & Forman

Correcting Retirement Plan Errors Just Got Easier

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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Revenue Procedure 2019-19 on April 19, 2019, updating the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS) to expand the types of plan errors that can be corrected under EPCRS....more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

New Fixer Upper Options for Retirement Plans: IRS Expands the EPCRS Self-Correction Program - Employee Benefits Alert

In Revenue Procedure 2019-19, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) significantly expanded the availability of the Self-Correction Program (SCP) that plan sponsors may use to self-correct failures in their qualified retirement...more

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