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IRS Tells HSA Sponsors How To Divvy Funds
By Allison BellThe Internal Revenue Service wants to keep employers from using the new health savings account programs to favor some employees over others.[@@]The IRS has ...
August 10, 2005
IRS Publishes Mutual Life Insurer Ta RateThe Internal Revenue Service has set the 2004 differential earnings tax rate for mutual life insurers at 0% and come up with a recomputed ...
July 28, 2005
IRS Rejects Profit-Sharing Health AccountsFederal officials are stopping efforts to put tax-exempt medical reimbursement accounts in 401(a) profit-sharing plans.[@@]Employers can put MRAs in 401(a) plans, but those employers ...
July 27, 2005
Feds Post New Estate Ta FormThe Internal Revenue Service has posted a draft of 2005 tax Form 706 on its Web site.[@@]Form 706 is the form that taxpayers and ...
July 26, 2005
Feds Post New Form 5500The Internal Revenue Service has posted advanced copies of the 2005 Form 5500, the tax form for employee benefit plans, on its Web site.[@@]The ...
July 21, 2005
IRS To Federal Credit Unions: Stay Calm About 457 PlansRegulators are telling federal credit unions not to panic about the status of their 457 nonqualified deferred compensation plans.[@@]The Internal Revenue Service has released ...
July 06, 2005
Ta Officials Ask For Comments On LTC FormThe Internal Revenue Service is seeking comments from the public on Form 1099-LTC, the form that taxpayers use to report benefits from qualified long ...
May 18, 2005
Eperts At AALU Meeting Weigh New IRS RuleDesigns for non-qualified executive comp plans are being rethoughtWashingtonWith the full force of a new Internal Revenue Service regulation set to take effect on ...