Year: 2012
Important 2013 Benefit Plan Deadline Timeframes
December 18, 2012
We are closing in on the New Year and just in time to help you meet your New Year’s resolution to meet all your deadlines, attached […]
With Change Comes More Change! – Form 5558
December 06, 2012
When the Department of Labor (DOL) made filing changes for Form 5500, it resulted in the revision of Form 8955-SSA. The revision also required that the form must now be filed with the IRS.
Will You Hit or Miss the Target?
November 20, 2012
Having a target in mind is always a helpful approach when attempting to guide oneself towards a particular finish line.
Don’t Forget to Distribute Safe Harbor Notices
November 08, 2012
As previously discussed in K.I.S.S.: Keep it Simple and Straight Forward with Safe Harbor Plan Designs, the IRS requires that safe harbor 401(k) plans, prior to the beginning of each plan year, […]
2013 Plan Limits
October 25, 2012
The 2013 plan limits were just released. Below is a chart that outlines the recently announced cost-of-living adjustments affecting retirement plans:
Playing it Safe with Rollovers of Mandatory Distributions
September 27, 2012
In our previous blog entry Moving the Goal Posts of Humaneness, we went over the news of the IRS no longer allowing their Letter-Forwarding Service for the use of […]
Moving the Goal Posts of Humaneness
September 13, 2012
In one of our previous blogs Mind Watching My Stuff for a Minute?, we discussed how to go about finding a participant who is unresponsive to communications from the plan sponsor.
IN or AND…What a difference a word makes
August 16, 2012
In the world of qualified plans, an employee must be given credit for a ‘year of service’ for any ‘computation period’ […]
A Deadline and a Lifeline
August 02, 2012
Most people are familiar with the significance of April 15th as the day we all pay our fair share to Uncle Sam […]
Retirement Plans – The Basics are Actually Quite Complicated
July 19, 2012
Occasionally, a new or existing tax client of our firm wants to set up a retirement plan. For a small employer with limited accounting and human resources […]