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The rules are the rules

While I went to law school for a law degree and stayed an extra year to get a tax LLM degr...

Like your parents, the IRS VCP program wants you to come clean

As a child, you’re usually told by your parents that they just want to hear the truth an...

Like your parents, the IRS VCP program wants you to come clean

As a child, you’re usually told by your parents that they just want to hear the truth an...

Benchmark your providers

I had a contractor work on my house for a couple of projects. Frank installed a new front ...

The Problem With Loans

They often say that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I don’t know who sai...

What financial advisors really do

One would think that the role of a retirement plan financial advisor is to pick plan inves...

The Magic Bullet of 404(c) Compliance

ERISA §404(c), is the code section that may limit a plan sponsor’s liability in retirem...

Sometimes, they get it

As an ERISA attorney, I do get to talk to a lot of financial advisors and ERISA independen...

The Truth about plan disqualification

In the movie Casino, Robert De Niro’s character Lefty Rosenthal warns Joe Pesci’s char...

Beware of TPAs who are really insurance sales people

A friend of mine who is a financial advisor asked me about a third party administration (T...