Thursday, February 18, 2021
A spate of recent legislation and IRS guidance promises to make 2021 an active year for any employer seeking to provide its employees with a competitive array of employee benefits. My “top 5” list of employee benefits that an employer should introduce or enhance in 2021, to improve retention and/or recruitment, is set forth below:
Student Loan Repayment by Employer under an Educational Assistance Program.
If there is one request that millennials and younger workers make repeatedly to their employers, it is this: Help us pay down our college/graduate school student loan debt! Under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Securities Act of 2020 (known as the CARES Act), as amended by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (the “
California Franchise Tax Board List of New Changes for Filing 2020 Tax Returns Published: Sunday, 14 February 2021 06:05
February 14, 2021 - California Franchise Tax Board: What s new for filing 2020 tax returns.
Resident state tax filers list
For taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2020, taxpayers will include the address and county of their principal residence on either:
Form 540, California Resident Income Tax Return
Form 540 2EZ, California Resident Income Tax Return
This is part of our annual reporting requirements to the jury commissioner.
Taxpayers are required to provide this information if both:
They are 18 years of age or older
Have filed a California resident income tax return for the preceding year
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Since the mid-1970s, saving in a tax-deferred employer- sponsored retirement plan has been an easy way to save for retirement while also deferring current income tax. Many working Americans allocate a portion of their paychecks into 401(k)s, which can later be transferred to a traditional Individual Retirement Account (IRA). Others save directly in IRAs.
Taking lifetime IRA distributions can provide a retiree a comfortable standard of living long after she receives her final paycheck. Another benefit of saving in an IRA is that the investor’s children can continue to take distributions taxed as ordinary income following her death until the IRA is finally depleted. The strategy of saving in a tax-deferred plan and allowing a non-spouse beneficiary to take an extended stretch payout using a beneficiary IRA has been an important part of leaving a legacy for families. However, this changed with the passage of the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act
Friday, February 5, 2021
The US Department of Labor (DOL) unveiled an interim final rule (the “Lifetime Income Disclosure Rule”) that adds a new lifetime income disclosure requirement for administrators of defined contribution plans (
e.g., plans covered by Internal Revenue Code (Code) section 401(k) or Code section 403(b), profit-sharing plans and employee stock ownership plans). The Lifetime Income Disclosure Rule implements the provisions of the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (SECURE Act) passed by Congress at the end of 2019 which require that defined contribution plan administrators include an estimated lifetime income stream of payments on the periodic participant benefit statements. For plans that are otherwise required to issue quarterly benefit statements, the Lifetime Income Disclosure Rule is clear that the lifetime income estimates may be provided on an annual basis.