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In the past week, devastating wildfires in Los Angeles, California, have caused unprecedented destruction across the region, leading to loss of life and displacing tens of thousands. While still ongoing, the fires already...more
Last year, the IRS issued its long-anticipated final (and newly proposed) regulations to address SECURE 1.0 and 2.0 Act changes to the required minimum distribution (“RMD”) rules (Code section 401(a)(9)). The 2024 proposed...more
Kilpatrick partner Sterling Perkinson and counsel San Parikh recently presented a CLE webinar for Strafford that focused on the 2024 Final Regulations and 2024 Proposed Regulations released on July 19, 2024, implementing the...more
The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (the SECURE Act), was originally signed into law on December 20, 2019. Intended to assist and encourage Americans in saving and investing for retirement,...more
The Secure Act, passed in 2019 and updated in 2022, made significant changes to the required minimum distribution (RMD) rules applicable to qualified retirement plans, IRAs, 403(b) plans, and other eligible deferred...more
Beginning in 2024, due to new rules within the SECURE Act 2.0, federal law now allows for up to $35,000 in a 529 account to be rolled over to a Roth individual retirement account (“IRA”) for the beneficiary of the 529...more
IRS reminds employers that implementing certain optional retirement plan provisions of SECURE 2.0 affect Form W‑2 and Form 1099‑R reporting starting in 2023 - The IRS recently issued Fact Sheet 2024‑18 to highlight how...more
The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released a notice providing guidance on various provisions of the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (SECURE 2.0). Some of the topics touched on in the guidance include automatic enrollment, the...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: As previously reported here, on December 20, 2023, the IRS issued Notice 2024-2 (the “Notice”) providing guidance on several outstanding questions related to provisions under SECURE 2.0. This blog post...more
In July of 2019, the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act, also known as the SECURE Act, changed the rules pertaining to 401(k), Roth, IRA, and other retirement savings plans. In December of 2022, the...more
Beneficiaries of qualified tuition programs under Section 529 of the Internal Revenue Code (“529 accounts”) will have a new opportunity starting January 1, 2024. Under SECURE Act 2.0 (the “Act”), 529 account beneficiaries...more
Despite ultimately finding in favor of a taxpayer surviving spouse, IRS Private Letter Ruling 2023-22-014 (the “PLR”) is chock-full of reasons to ensure proper planning is in place when it comes to IRAs....more
On December 29, 2022, the Securing a Strong Retirement Act (commonly referred to as SECURE Act 2.0) was signed into law. This is follow-up legislation to the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act, which...more
SECURE 2.0 followed in the footsteps of the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (“SECURE Act”) to further delay the required beginning date for required minimum distributions (“RMDs”), and IRA...more
On December 29, 2022, President Biden signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (CAA) into law. CAA included the much anticipated SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (the Act or SECURE 2.0). This sweeping retirement legislation has...more
This alert from Verrill’s Private Clients & Fiduciary Services Group highlights the latest changes to the income tax and transfer tax landscape. The alert addresses the SECURE ACT 2.0, federal and state transfer tax updates...more
The SECURE 2.0 Act was signed into law in late December 2022. While the legislation contains a number of provisions, this alert focuses on the changes most relevant to individuals in their personal planning....more
President Biden recently signed into law the Secure 2.0 Act of 2022. The Act contains, in part, an expansion of the rules for qualified charitable distributions. A qualified charitable distribution (“QCD”) is a direct...more
Retirement plans and individual retirement accounts (IRAs) are subject to required minimum distribution rules under Internal Revenue Codes Section 401(a)(9). The SECURE Act amended the required minimum distribution rules...more
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
A mere 26 months after passage of the SECURE Act, the IRS has kindly blessed us with 275 pages of regulations to address all of our lingering questions. As you know, one of the more consequential effects of the SECURE Act...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is temporarily suspending the IRS Prototype Opinion Letter Program for individual retirement accounts and individual retirement annuities (IRAs) effective March 14, 2022. As noted in...more
The temporary reprieve is over. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress suspended the rules for required minimum distributions (RMDs) in 2020, including inherited accounts. But the rules have been restored for the 2021 tax...more
Groom has prepared a comparison here of the provisions in two key retirement bills being considered by the 117th Congress: the Securing a Strong Retirement Act of 2021 (H.R. 2954, “SECURE 2.0”) and the Retirement Security &...more
Ruder Ware’s Trusts & Estates blog has featured several posts (for example, Call to Action: Review Your Estate Plan in Light of the SECURE Act and Why SECURE Act Matters to You) on the SECURE Act, a federal law effective...more