Internal Revenue Service Requests Comments on Expansion of Determination Letter Program for Individually Designed Retirement Plans

The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) has asked for comments on whether it should expand the determination letter program for individually designed plans for 2019. Currently, determination letter applications for individually designed tax-qualified retirement plans (including 401(k) plans) may be submitted only for initial plan qualification—i.e., submissions by plans that have never received a determination letter—and for terminating plans. The guidance establishing those rules anticipated that the IRS would...

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