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IRS Collects Accounting Change Rules
By Staff WriterThe 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 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 ...
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 ...
August 13, 2008
Court Backs Mutual Holders Who Get StockThe Internal Revenue Service was wrong to require a policyholder who received stock through an insurer demutualization to pay taxes on the proceeds when the ...
August 05, 2008
IRS Awards Plan Agent Tester ContractThe Internal Revenue Service has chosen a company created by the American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries and the National Institute of Pension Administrators ...