Merrill Edge in Hot Seat Over Rates Paid on IRAs - Michael Schloss, Financial Planning, December 14, 2023 (PDF)
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Investors Roll More Than $600 Billion a Year to IRAs. Anticipated Labor Department Rules Could Raise Their Protections
Investors Roll More Than $600 Billion a Year to IRAs. Anticipated Labor Department Rules Could Raise Their Protections - Andrew Oringer, CNBC, October 6, 2023 (PDF)
IRS Issues Advice on Nonfungible Tokens (NFTs) in IRS and Tax Qualified Individual Account Plans
IRS Issues Advice on Nonfungible Tokens (NFTs) in IRS and Tax Qualified Individual Account Plans - Marcia Wagner, 401(k) Advisor, May 2023
How Plan Sponsors Can Offer Backdoor Roth Conversions
How Plan Sponsors Can Offer Backdoor Roth Conversions - Marcia Wagner, PLANSPONSOR, April 3, 2023 (PDF)
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...
Secure Act 2.0 Brings a Litany of Retirement Changes
By Roberta Watson, Barry Salkin and Alex Olsen The SECURE Act 2.0 of 2022 (“SECURE 2.0”, or the “Act”) became law as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023. SECURE 2.0 builds on the...
IRS Publishes Registered Apprenticeship Guidance
By Stephen Wilkes and Seth Gaudreau On November 30, 2022, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) and the Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) published Notice 2022-61 (the “Notice”) in the Federal...
If You Give Rollover Advice to IRA Owners Act Now: The Compliance Deadline Has Passed
If You Give Rollover Advice to IRA Owners Act Now: The Compliance Deadline Has Passed - Marcia S. Wagner and Kim Shaw Elliott, Investment & Wealth Institute, September/October 2022
How to Avoid Mistakes In Estate Planning
How to Avoid Mistakes in Estate Planning - Marcia Wagner, fiftyplus advocate, August 28, 2022 (PDF)
Should You Use The Roth Retirement Savings Option?
Should You Use The Roth Retirement Savings Option? - Marcia Wagner, Forbes, August 27, 2022 (PDF)
Required Minimum Distribution Modifications Applicable to Defined Benefit Plans as Well
While most of the attention was on how the IRS’s proposed regulation would address tax-qualified defined contribution plans and IRAs, the IRS also took the opportunity to update the existing...
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New Jersey Taxpayers Beware
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New Jersey Taxpayers Beware: Don’t Let a Mismatch between Your State’s Tax Laws and the Federal Rules for Deducting Contributions Result in Overpaying Your State Tax...
Caution Clients Against IRA Asset Class Mistakes
Caution Clients Against IRA Asset Class Mistakes – Barry Salkin, PLANADVISER, February, 1, 2022 (PDF)
Tax Court Rejects Aggressive IRA Strategy
View Printable PDF In recent years, the IRS has paid increased attention to what it regards as impermissible uses or operation of individual retirement accounts (“IRAs”). The recent Tax Court case...