Category: Retirement Planning
Sponsor a Defined Benefit Plan? March 31, 2025 Restatement Deadline Approaching
PLAN RESTATEMENTS The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) requires that all pre-approved qualified retirement plan documents be restated in their entirety every six (6) years (this period is often referred to as the “Restatement Cycle”). Pre-approved plans subject to this mandate consist of prototype plan documents. A prototype plan document is…
Want to Make an Impact?—A Win-Win: Using Retirement Funds to Support Your Favorite Cause
Want to Make an Impact?—A Win-Win: Using Retirement Funds to Support Your Favorite Cause Introduction In December 2022, Congress passed the Secure 2.0 Act of 2022 (the “Act”). Included in the Act is a provision that allows certain individuals to make a one-time transfer of up to $50,000 directly from…
RMD Proposed Regulations – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
The proposed regulations consist of 64 pages printed in the Federal Register and are subject to a comment period which ended on May 25, 2022. Once the IRS considers the comments it will move towards finalization and adoption after which they will become effective. The IRS has received 119 comments…
Income Tax Planning with Individual Retirement Accounts
We are occasionally faced with a situation where an IRA is designated to an individual that has predeceased the IRA owner with no contingent designated beneficiary named. In a situation where no designated beneficiary is named, the custodian agreement will control beneficiary designation and many times the IRA ends up…