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IRS Targets New 'Transactions Of Interest'
By Joe StenkenThe Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department recently released final regulations on the disclosure of reportable transactions (i.e., potentially tax avoidance transactions), and included ...
July 28, 2006
IRS Exempts Union Workers From HSA Comparability TestingThe Internal Revenue Service has completed final regulations that explain how employers are supposed to try to make health savings account programs fair to employees.The ...
July 28, 2006
IRS Exempts Union Workers From HSA Comparability TestingThe Internal Revenue Service has completed final regulations that explain how employers are supposed to try to make health savings account programs fair to employees.The ...
July 21, 2006
IRS Lets Nonprofits Cut Some Workers From 401(k) TestingThe Internal Revenue Service is loosening antidiscrimination requirements for organizations that offer 401(k) retirement plans to some employees and 403(b) plans to others.The new regulations, ...
July 06, 2006
IRS Explains Taxation Of Late Plan PaymentsThe Internal Revenue Service has issued procedures employers can use when computing tax obligations resulting from delays in sending employees' contributions to 401(k) plans and ...
July 01, 2006
Closing a LoopholeThe IRS was concerned that if someone established a charitable remainder annuity trust it might be done in such a way that the annuity remitted...
June 23, 2006
Personnel Changes: IRS, IMSA, AIG, OthersThe Internal Revenue Service has promoted Christopher Wagner to deputy commissioner of the tax exempt and government entities division.Wagner, who will help to oversee the ...
May 24, 2006
IRS Panel To Address Nonprofit Plan RegsAn Internal Revenue Service advisory group is about to hear a working group's views on improving the document compliance program for 403(b) retirement plans.The advisory ...