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IRS Expands Small Plan Funding Relief
By Staff WriterThe Internal Revenue Service is trying to be more flexible about how it will apply new defined benefit plan rules.The IRS has described the changes ...
August 19, 2008
IRS Collects Accounting Change RulesThe Internal Revenue Service has published a guide to getting automatic IRS consent for changes in accounting methods.The guide, given in IRS Revenue Procedure 2008-52, ...
August 18, 2008
Court Rules Against IRS's Tax Position on Insurance Company DemutualizationA recent federal court decision ruled against the IRS's stance that policyholders who receive stock in a mutual-to-stock conversion of an insurance company--known as a demutualization--must pay taxes on the proceeds when the stock is sold.
August 17, 2008
Court Backs Mutual Policyholders Who Get Stock In ConversionsThe Internal Revenue Service inappropriately requires policyholders who receive stock in a mutual-to-stock conversion to pay taxes on the proceeds when the stock is sold, ...
August 17, 2008
Discount Split-Dollar's Ability To Withstand IRS Scrutiny DebatedIf you're looking for a hot new technique to pitch to your affluent clientele, here's one to consider: the intergenerational private split-dollar arrangement. If it ...
August 17, 2008
Court Backs Mutual Policyholders Who Get Stock In ConversionsThe Internal Revenue Service inappropriately requires policyholders who receive stock in a mutual-to-stock conversion to pay taxes on the proceeds when the stock is sold, ...
August 17, 2008
Discount Split-Dollar's Ability To Withstand IRS Scrutiny DebatedIf you're looking for a hot new technique to pitch to your affluent clientele, here's one to consider: the intergenerational private split-dollar arrangement. If it ...
August 15, 2008
IRS Updates Plan Correction Program AdviceThe Internal Revenue Service has released new guidelines for fixing employee benefit plan problems.The new guidance, which appears in IRS Revenue Procedure 2008-50, affects plan ...