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…
…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…
…benefit plans – primarily those designed to implement provisions in the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act. The window for comments recently closed on November 1st. At the same time, EBSA published a notice of proposed changes to its implementing regulations under…
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…
…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…