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The move is a punative measure against a Facebook co-founder who has renounced his U.S. citizenship to avoid paying taxes when the company goes public.
It's the hottest trend in job-based health insurance: plans that give you a personal savings account for medical bills but also require you to pay a hefty share of costs before coverage kicks in. But there's a warning flag, a risk that workers will forgo needed care, even preventive services...
Advisors sometimes ask me what defines a key employee. Now that Charlie Sheen quotes are pass, its not enough to respond that a key employee is one who is winning. We need to offer more meat to the definition.
All it took was a popular Time magazine cover story to crucify the 401(k) and label it null for anyone making less than $100,000. Any incentiveeven if it's last minute before tax deadlinefor low-income workers to sock away just a little bit more should definitely be noted.
The most daunting certainty of the Department of Labor's new 401(k) fee disclosure regulations may not be the rules themselves, but the aftermath of employee confusion and/or outrage.
The Form 5500, Annual Return/Report of Employee Benefit Plan, is the form used to file an employee benefit plans annual information return with the Department of Labor (DOL).