Category: Benefit Plans
The Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program – Overview
July 07, 2015
By filing through the VFCP, a plan sponsor will receive a no-action letter from the EBSA indicating to the plan that the EBSA will not take civil action against the plan sponsor with regard to this specific transaction in the submission. It is also important to note that there is no application fee to file through the VFCP.
A Plan Sponsor’s Guide to Assessing the Qualifications of Retirement Plan Auditors
June 10, 2015
The DOL has released the report on its fourth study of audit quality. Revealing a shocking turn for the worse, 39% of the plan audits in the sample did not comply with professional audit standards, up from 33% in the 2004 study, 19% in 1997 study, and 23% in the 1988 study.
Qualified Plan Distributions: IRS Issues Guidance on Allocation of After-Tax and Pretax Amounts
February 11, 2015
Lack of clarity causes frustration. The topic of how to properly allocate the pretax and after-tax amounts attributable to distributions from qualified plan accounts that include Roth 401(a) accounts or after-tax accounts has been a source of much debate in the retirement plan community.