Mary Beth’s Corner In the world of retirement savings plans, businesses often find themselves evaluating their options to better suit the needs of their employees and their company’s growth. One common transition many businesses consider is moving from a SIMPLE IRA plan to a Safe Harbor 401(k) plan –
Mary Beth’s Corner The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (“SECURE”) Act of 2019 requires that 401(k) plans permit employees who have worked for at least 500 hours of service over three consecutive years and attained age 21 before the close of those three years must be allowed to
The IRS has released the retirement plan contribution limits for 2024.. read more!
Time is a precious resource when managing a business and running accurate payroll can be time consuming and complex. Payroll Integrations and aggregators can automate a plans payroll experience between the Plan Sponsor, Recordkeeper and TPA.
Thanks to new regulations, for reporting purposes, the inclusion of eligible but non-participating employees will no longer be the methodology used when determining the number of participants– only participants and beneficiaries with account balances will be considered.
By 2025, most startup retirement plans will be required to automatically enroll new employees into their plan, unless they opt out, at an initial 3% employee deferral rate with auto escalation. – Sound familiar?
Employers may now consider retroactively adopting a tax-qualified retirement plan such as a profit sharing plan, cash balance plan, or traditional defined benefit plan, for the purpose of making tax deductible employer contributions before their extended corporate tax filing deadline.
Since employers contribute for slightly different reasons, those contribution due dates may vary depending on plan design. In other words, one set of rules may specify a deadline for compliance purposes, while another set of rules requires a different deadline for tax deduction purposes.
The House and Senate have passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, which includes a grouping of retirement plan provisions better known as, “SECURE 2.0”.
On December 23, 2022, the bill was presented and signed into law by President Biden.
With 2023 rapidly approaching, it’s important to keep up with year-end IRS requirements and make the necessary communications around RMD rules for employees.
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