Retirement planning

In the wake of a global pandemic, everything is being re-thought.

The act makes extensive changes to the rules affecting tax-qualified, employer-sponsored retirement plans.

The passage extends the IRA contribution deadline and waives RMDs for 2020. Here’s what else financial advisors need to know.

The law to boost retirement planning has tax consequences.

The purpose of the SECURE Act is to incentivize employers to offer retirement plans as well as to improve individual retirement savings outcomes for the millions of Americans without adequate retirement savings.

Senator Bernie Sanders is proposing hiking taxes on executive retirement plans and using the extra revenue to aid struggling worker pension plans.

How many clients have told you they can’t wait until they’re retired? Suppose you ask them point blank, “What does retirement look like to you?”

The Internal Revenue Service is giving financial institutions a break when it comes to notifying owners of individual retirement accounts about taking their required minimum distributions after a new law increased the age for taking RMDs from 70½ to 72.

To help individuals and businesses prepare for filing season, Grant Thornton has released a collection of year-end tax tips.

The executive director of the Association for Accounting Marketing is retiring at the end of the year for unspecified health reasons.

The Internal Revenue Service issued its annual inflation adjustments for retirement plans.

Guiding clients into and through retirement.

An IRS revenue ruling explains what happens when a distribution check from a qualified plan isn’t cashed.

New tax legislation is passing through Congress aimed at addressing several retirement issues.

For the accountant who is filing a Form 5500 for a self-employed individual, it may be the job of the accountant to report beneficiary information.

Not only would stretch IRAs be dead if the legislation were to pass in the Senate, but your clients’ profit-sharing plans could be next.

A short list of pointers for when students put down the diploma and pick up the tax return.

The bipartisan legislation will provide more retirement planning options for accountants to advise small business clients about, while also fixing a glitch in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that imposed the kiddie tax on children of deceased service members.

The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation that relaxes the rules for retirement savers and corrects an unintended side-effect of the 2017 tax law that hit children of military members who died in combat with higher-than-expected tax bills.

As the U.S. retirement savings crisis continues to grow, legislators are taking steps to ensure all employees have access to formal retirement savings programs.