Annual filings always bring a swirl of activity, and July 31 is no different. It also brings a cloud of confusion for plan sponsors, according to Form 5500 mavens. Mistakes on Form 5500, a key part of ...

After a less-than-gangbusters success in working to make patient records paperless, the federal government switched its focus to the Department of Labor agencies to take up the paperless mantle. You ...

The only things certain in life are death and taxes," Ben Franklin famously said. If you file a Form 5500 on behalf of your company's pension or health and welfare plans, the filing deadline for ...

The Department of Labor has decided not to grant a blanket extension for filers of Form 5500 and Form 5500-SF. A SunGard Relius news release said that in a letter to the American Benefits Council ...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) requires companies to file a Form 5500 to provide information about their benefit plans. If the company has 100 or more eligible participants that also means the ...

The best retirement plan for a business trader is a defined-contribution employer 401(k), as this plan allows up to a maximum tax-deductible contribution of $53,000 ($59,000 if age 50 and over) based ...

Thursday was the deadline for most qualified retirement plans to file their Form 5500, that often-maligned bureaucratic entanglement that is the only real mechanism that government and the private ...