With so much happening in the employee benefits world over the last few months, we bring you Benefits Catch-Up, our catch-up contribution to help you keep up with recent developments. Eversheds Sutherland’s US Employee...more
Welcome to this week’s edition of Tax Bytes. Our team of tax lawyers is actively monitoring for federal and international tax developments and issues of note. Each week we pull together the items we deem most important to...more
7/16/2025
/ Business Taxes ,
Compensation ,
Corporate Taxes ,
Employee Benefits ,
Executive Compensation ,
Federal Budget ,
Federal Taxes ,
Internal Revenue Code (IRC) ,
Loper Bright Enterprises v Raimondo ,
New Legislation ,
SCOTUS ,
Tax Court ,
Tax Reform ,
Taxation ,
Trump Administration
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Act), signed into law on July 4th, contains a number of provisions that will impact employee compensation and benefits. Employers and service providers should start considering the following...more
7/14/2025
/ Benefit Plan Sponsors ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Executive Compensation ,
Fringe Benefits ,
Health Savings Accounts ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
HSA ,
IRS ,
Labor Reform ,
New Legislation ,
Paid Leave ,
Tax Credits ,
Tax Deductions ,
Technology ,
Telehealth
Welcome to this week’s edition of Tax Bytes. Our team of tax lawyers is actively monitoring for federal and international tax developments and issues of note. Each week we pull together the items we deem most important to...more
5/21/2025
/ Business Taxes ,
EBITDA ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employee Retention ,
Excise Tax ,
Legislative Agendas ,
New Legislation ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Senate Committees ,
Tax Credits ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ,
Tax Exempt Entities ,
Tax Reform ,
U.S. House ,
Ways and Means Committee
On May 12, 2025, the House Ways and Means Committee released “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill” containing its draft tax legislation (the OBBB), which includes a number of items that may be of particular interest to US employers...more
5/16/2025
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Employer Contributions ,
Executive Compensation ,
Health and Welfare Plans ,
Healthcare Reform ,
HSA ,
Legislative Agendas ,
New Legislation ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Retirement Plan ,
Tax Credits ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ,
Tax Reform ,
Ways and Means Committee
With so much happening in the employee benefits world over the last few months, we bring you Benefits Catch-Up, our catch-up contribution to help you keep up with recent developments. Eversheds Sutherland’s US Employee...more
5/14/2025
/ 401k ,
American Airlines ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) ,
Employer Responsibilities ,
Executive Compensation ,
Fiduciary Duty ,
Health and Welfare Plans ,
Health Insurance ,
Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Retirement ,
Retirement Plan ,
Verizon
The US Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision on April 17, 2025 that could have a lasting impact on retirement plan litigation. The decision in Cunningham v. Cornell University clarifies that when plaintiffs bring...more
With 2024 drawing to a close, employers should review any actions needed before year-end with respect to their benefit plans, as well as some upcoming deadlines that may require advance planning. As the adage attributed to...more
11/21/2024
/ Automatic Enrollment ,
Benefit Plan Sponsors ,
Cybersecurity ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Eligibility Determination ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Extensions ,
Forfeiture ,
Health and Welfare Plans ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Health Plan Sponsors ,
MHPAEA ,
NQTLs ,
Part-Time Employees ,
Qualified Retirement Plans ,
Required Minimum Distributions ,
Roth IRA ,
SECURE Act ,
Telehealth
With 2023 drawing to a close, it is a good time for employers to consider any actions needed before year-end with respect to their benefit plans. We made a list, and we encourage plan sponsors to check it twice....more
The Department of Labor (DOL) recently advised that a program under which Citigroup Inc. (Citi) subsidizes investment management fees for its employee benefit plans’ diverse investment managers could be implemented without...more
The IRS has announced a two-year “administrative transition period” for plan sponsors to implement the SECURE 2.0 Act provision requiring higher-income employees to make retirement plan catch-up contributions as Roth...more
8/29/2023
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403(b) Plans ,
Benefit Plan Sponsors ,
Comment Period ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employee Contributions ,
Individual Retirement Account (IRA) ,
IRS ,
Relief Measures ,
Retirement Plan ,
Roth IRA ,
SECURE Act
On February 24, 2023, the IRS issued proposed regulations simplifying the use of forfeitures in qualified retirement plans, providing that forfeitures in defined contribution plans must be used by the end of the plan year...more
President Biden signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, on December 29, 2022, which includes the package of retirement plan legislation known as “SECURE 2.0.” SECURE 2.0 contains numerous significant changes for...more
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
On December 21, 2020, Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (the Act), which impacts employee benefits in a number of respects. The Act provides additional relief for retirement and other benefit plans,...more
On April 19, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Revenue Procedure 2019-19, which updates its Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS). The new EPCRS significantly expands the use of retroactive plan...more
The principal regulators of U.S. employee benefits have recently published updates to their guidance plans for the coming months.
..On August 15, 2016, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service...more
The principal regulators of U.S. employee benefits have recently published updates to their guidance plans for the coming months.
On May 18, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) updated its Semi-Annual Regulatory...more
The principal regulators of U.S. employee benefits have recently published updates to their guidance plans for the coming months.
On November 19, 2015, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) updated its Semi-Annual...more
The principal regulators of U.S. employee benefits have recently published updates to their guidance plans for the coming months.
On May 21, 2015, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) updated its Semi-Annual Regulatory...more
The principal regulators of U.S. employee benefits have recently published updates to their guidance plans for the coming months. The updated plans are reflected in the attached chart.
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