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13Dec

FLASHPOINT: BOY, ARE YOU IN TROUBLE NOW! … UH, MAYBE NOT!

Periodically, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) or the Department of Labor, both of whom have authority over Forms 5500, scan their records electronically to determine if everyone has filed their Forms 5500 for the year. While this seems reasonable, it has often been our experience that the scan occurs prior to the time that the […]
06Aug

FLASHPOINT: FORM 5500 CLARIFICATION … BETTER LATE THAN NEVER

Form 5500 Clarification … Better Late than Never One of the highly useful provisions from the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (“SECURE Act”) is the ability to adopt a new plan after the end of the plan year, as late as the filing deadline for the employer’s tax return.  This […]
20Jul

FLASHPOINT: THE NEWEST EPCRS: ALL GOOD NEWS (EXCEPT WHEN IT’S NOT)

The IRS issued the long-awaited update of its Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS) on Thursday, July 15, 2021.  Revenue Procedure 2021-30 (“Rev. Proc. 2021-30”), which supersedes the previous EPCRS procedure, Rev. Proc. 2019-19: maintains the now familiar structure of the IRS’s correction procedures; lengthens the time for self-correcting significant operational failures and document failures; […]
10Sep

FLASHPOINT: ALL THE GUIDANCE THAT’S FIT TO PRINT: GIFTS FROM THE DOL AND IRS (GEE, WE DIDN’T GET THEM ANYTHING!)

In the last few weeks, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) and Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) have published a number of key items of guidance.  Ranging from Pooled Plan Provider (“PPP”) registrations and lifetime income illustrations to rollover rules for qualified plan loan offsets, the materials are vast and welcome by many in this industry. […]
18Aug

FERENCZY FLASHPOINT: USER FEES GOING UP AND CARES UPDATE

Updated User Fees for IRS Filings The IRS just issued the user fees for 2021 in Announcement 2020-14.  Unlike in 2018, when the IRS increased user fees overnight with no advance notice (yes, we hold a grudge), the IRS is letting us know several months in advance so that we can take some preemptive action […]
30Jun

FLASHPOINT: IRS STILL CARES SUSPENSION OR REDUCTION OF SAFE HARBOR CONTRIBUTIONS FOR 2020

In Notice 2020-52 (the “Notice”), issued on June 29, 2020, the IRS continues providing relief for employers during the COVID pandemic.  In particular, the Notice permits employers to suspend or reduce safe harbor contributions in 401(k) and 403(b) plans after March 13, 2020, for the balance of the year, regardless of whether the employer is […]
24Jun

FLASHPOINT: WAIT! THERE’S MORE! IRS ISSUES CARES RMD GUIDANCE

Under the heading of “No Good Deed Goes Unpunished,” we were just patting ourselves on the back for getting out the Notice 2020-50 FlashPoint so quickly when the IRS laughed in our face.  A mere two working days later, on June 23, 2020, the IRS issued Notice 2020-51 (the “Notice”), providing guidance in relation to […]
22Jun

FlashPoint: The IRS CARES! (Who’d Have Thunk?) Expanded List of Qualified Individuals and More Info!

On Friday, June 19, 2020, the IRS issued Notice 2020-50 (the “Notice”), which provides expanded guidance on Coronavirus-Related Distributions (“CRDs”) and the CARES participant loan rules. Expansion of Definition of Qualified Individual You may recall from the prior Flash, “Coronavirus Relief from Congress – The CARES Act,” that the following individuals were considered to be […]