Federal Regulation
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SEC Takes Official Look At UnitedHealth
By Staff WriterThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has taken an interest in the executive compensation practices of a large health carrier.The SEC has sent a formal ...
December 13, 2006
IRS Offers Tips For Church Health PlansThe Internal Revenue Service has released guidance for religious congregation medical insurance programs.The final regulations, "Exception to the HIPAA Nondiscrimination Requirements for Certain Grandfathered Church ...
December 12, 2006
SEC Risk Director Leaving for Private SectorThe SEC announced that Charles Fishkin, who helped create the Commission's Office of Risk Assessment under-then Chairman Bill Donaldson in 2004 and propagated an agency-wide risk management program designed to make the regulator more proactive, will leave the Commission in the new year to take a position in New York...
December 05, 2006
IRS Implements Grant-Making RulesThe Internal Revenue Service has published temporary guidance of interest to financial advisors who help clients set up charitable giving arrangements.The IRS has issued the ...
December 04, 2006
IRS Publishes W-2 Donation Record RulesThe Internal Revenue Service has spelled out documentation requirements for workers who give to charities through payroll deduction programs.The IRS has spelled out the new ...
December 04, 2006
IRS Publishes W-2 Donation Record RulesThe Internal Revenue Service has spelled out documentation requirements for workers who give to charities through payroll deduction programs.The IRS has spelled out the new ...
December 01, 2006
Pension Act Reforms for DB and Hybrid DC PlansFor those trying to devise defined benefit (DB) and hybrid defined benefit/defined contribution (DC) plans that fall under the employer deduction rules of the Pension...
November 30, 2006
Feds Publish Model Diversification NoticeThe Internal Revenue Service has issued guidance for defined contribution retirement plans that will be subject to the new Pension Protection Act investment diversification rules.Section ...