By John Schultze and Barry Salkin One of the changes made by the SECURE 2.0 Act requires that catch-up contributions made by employees with FICA compensation from an employer sponsoring a 401(k),...
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IRS Issues Transitional Guidance for Required Minimum Distributions
By Jon Schultze and Barry Salkin In response to changes made by the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (SECURE 2.0) to the required minimum distribution (“RMD”) rules of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”),...
IRS Issues Guidance on Nonfungible Tokens (“NFTs”) in IRAs and Tax-Qualified Individual Account Plans
By Barry Salkin and Jon Schultze Unlike ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code (“Code”) places almost no restrictions on the manner in which plan assets of individual retirement plans or tax-qualified...
IRS Issues Proposed Regulations Regarding Use of Forfeitures in Tax-Qualified Plans
By Jon Schultze and Barry Salkin Some of the IRS regulations dealing with tax-qualified plans predate ERISA and subsequent federal tax legislation, and have become outdated. However, sometimes it...
SECURE Act 2.0 Modification to Controlled Group and Affiliated Service Group Requirements
By Jon Schultze and Barry Salkin One of the less-discussed provisions of the recently enacted SECURE Act 2.0 makes two changes to the “family attribution” rules under Section 414 of the Internal...
Congress Enacts Respect for Marriage Act
By, Barry Salkin, Roberta Watson and Jon Schultze n the ordinary course, we would not be advising clients that a statute that a Supreme Court held unconstitutional nine years ago was being removed...
IRS to Permit Determination Letters in Limited Circumstances for Individually Designed Code Section 403(b) Plans
Historically, an important element of compliance for tax-qualified plans under Code Section 401(a) or 403(a) was the submission of a request for a favorable determination letter on the form of the...
IRS Issues Important Guidance with respect to Required Minimum Distribution Regulations
By Jon Schultze and Barry Salkin The SECURE Act made significant revisions to the required minimum distribution rules under Internal Revenue Code (“Code”) Section 401(a)(9) that apply to defined...