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The SSRA: What’s Not to Like?

…Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX), the SSRA contains provisions that are pro-retirement plan, pro-plan participant, and pro-plan sponsor. The bill builds on the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act of 2019 to further improve workers’ long-term financial wellbeing. “Covid-19 has only exacerbated…

Adding More Certainty to SECURE

There has been a flurry of recent activity surrounding the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act as we near its first anniversary. Signed into law on December 20, 2019, the SECURE Act has been the subject of various federal government-issued explanations and…

2020: The Year That Was

…few of those events that helped make this such an extraordinary year. To truly assess 2020, we actually need to go back to the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act, which was signed into law on December 20, 2019. This has truly…

A Different Kind of GoP

While Pooled Employer Plans (PEPs) and Multiple Employer Plans (MEPs) got the lion’s share of attention last year with the passage of the SECURE Act (Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement) – and understandably so – another type of plan is also gaining traction…

Not So PEPpy? Think Group of Plans

Despite predictions by some that 2021 would begin with an explosion of Pooled Employer Plans (PEPs) as a result of the passage of the SECURE Act (Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement), that does not seem to be the case, so far. Certainly there…

The Importance of Retroactive Adoption of Retirement Plans

Implicit in planning for retirement is looking ahead. But thanks to the SECURE Act and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), it can pay to look to the past as well. The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act of 2019 allows an employer…

That’s Why They Invented (Virtual) Erasers

…Significant changes and revisions which may be beneficial to plan sponsors, participants and the retirement plan community. Highlights include: Overpayment correction options: Expanded correction principles to allow plan sponsors to fix operational failures when plan participants or beneficiaries receive payments from defined benefit plans that…

Retroactive 2021 Tax Planning; Overlooked Deductions and Credits

…2021? What options do these business owners have? Fortunately, the rules for establishing retirement plans have changed as a result of the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act of 2019. Under the SECURE Act, for 2020 and later tax years, a business…

The DOL GoP Gap

They are new for 2022—Groups of Plans (GoPs)—or as the Department of Labor (DOL) has begun to refer to them for reporting purposes, “Defined Contribution Group Plans.” The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act of 2019, Pub. L. 116–94, created GoPs, effective…

Running SECURE

On December 20, 2019, President Trump signed the government’s must-have, year-end spending bill, the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020, into law. The last minute addition of the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act provisions to the spending bill means a landslide of…

Key Takeaways from SECURE Act 2.0

…will be a challenge from a recordkeeping perspective, but our view is that the provision will rapidly gain popularity once the tax community becomes facile with its implications and opportunities. Provision: Less stringent controlled group rules Businesses under common ownership or control are subject to…