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According to new research published by the Investment Company Institute (ICI), Americans like their retirement plans. ICI’s research report “American Views on Defined Contribution Plan Saving, 2024” finds that almost 75% of...more
Background - Many defined contribution plans are designed to permit participants to take advantage of an increased employee contribution limit starting the year they turn 50....more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regularly requires retirement plans to incorporate new laws and regulations. To ensure that pre-approved retirement plans incorporate these required legal and regulatory updates, the IRS...more
The IRS has released the 2023 cost-of-living adjustments for limits on employee benefits with some adjustments to the 2023 rates including minor increases to the maximum contributions allowed under Code Section 415 for...more
The May Section 7520 rate for use with estate planning techniques such as CRTs, CLTs, QPRTs and GRATs is 3.0%, a sharp increase from the April rate of 2.2%. The May applicable federal rate (“AFR”) for use with a sale to a...more
On November 4, 2021, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released the 2022 dollar limitations that apply to tax-qualified retirement plans. With few exceptions, the 2022 limitations published in Notice 2021-61 have been...more
Several Republican senators have introduced legislation that would allow plan participants who are unable to make contributions to their tax-advantaged retirement accounts in 2020 to make catch-up contributions to these...more
Troutman Sanders and Pepper Hamilton are producing a series of podcasts to discuss employee benefits, executive compensation, and labor and employment issues that employers are confronting in light of the COVID-19 pandemic,...more
In response to the earthquakes that since January 6, 2020, have shaken Puerto Rico, on February 18, 2020, the Puerto Rico Department of the Treasury (known by its Spanish name as “Hacienda”) issued Circular Letter of Internal...more
In this transcript of the video below, attorneys Ron Wayne and Sarah Blank discuss the SECURE Act and the key provisions that may affect you....more
In this brief video, attorneys Ron Wayne and Sarah Blank discuss the SECURE Act and the key provisions that may affect you....more
Ever since defined contribution plans have come to dominate the retirement plan landscape, both plan sponsors and policymakers have grappled with how to help employees take a lifetime’s worth of savings and convert it into a...more
As the U.S. private retirement system has largely shifted away from traditional pensions in favor of a defined contribution plan savings model, a number of policymakers have expressed concerns over whether participants’...more
Many governmental 457(b) deferred compensation and 401(a) defined contribution plan sponsors do not take full advantage of the contribution limits for these plans. To do this, you need to understand: the limits, who they...more
Hundreds of articles have been published over the last two weeks about the SECURE Act (“Act”), which was signed into law in late December as part of the most recent budget bill. As you are certainly aware by now, the Act...more
On December 20, 2019, federal legislation approving spending limits for the 2020 fiscal year was signed into law. Included in the legislation is the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (the...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on November 6, 2019 announced the following cost of living inflation adjusted dollar limits applicable to tax-qualified plans and other benefit plans for 2020...more
On November 6, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Notice 2019-59, which sets forth the 2020 cost-of-living adjustments affecting dollar limits on benefits and contributions for qualified retirement plans. The...more
The United States Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) has released Revenue Procedure 2019-39, which sets forth a March 31, 2020 deadline by which tax-qualified 403(b) plans must have plan documents that fully comply with the...more
Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of July 1 – 5, 2019. July 2, 2019: The IRS issued a Chief Counsel Notice wherein the Chief...more