NU Online News Service, Feb. 24, 2004, 6:07 p.m. EST – The Internal Revenue Service has published a guide for employers that want to ask for waivers of minimum retirement plan funding requirements.[@@]
The guide, Revenue Procedure 2004-15, gives the address of the unit that handles the requests and also describes the information that employers should include with the requests.
The revenue procedure, which applies to sponsors of defined contribution plans as well as defined benefit plans, requires that an employer show that meeting the minimum funding requirement would cause "substantial business hardship" and be "adverse to the interest of plan participants in the aggregate," according to John Heil, the IRS employee plans official who is listed as the principal author of the revenue procedure.
"What constitutes appropriate evidence will depend on the facts and circumstances of each case," Heil writes.
