February 26, 2015

IRS Updates Procedures For 403(b) Opinions & Approvals

February 26, 2015

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is revising the application procedures for pre-approved 403(b) opinions and advisory letters. Revenue Procedure 2015-22 modifies Revenue Procedure 2013-22, 2013-18 I.R.B. 985, as modified by Revenue Procedure 2014-28, 2014-16 I.R.B. 944, and Revenue Procedure 2015-8, 2015-1 I.R.B. 235 to:

Update the addresses to which applications for opinion and advisory letters for § 403(b) pre-approved plans should be submitted; and

To insert a user fee that was omitted from Rev. Proc. 2015-8. Revenue Procedure 2015-22 will be officially published in Internal Revenue Bulletin 2015-11 dated March 16, 2015.

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Board Certified in Labor & Employment Law, Past Chair of the ABA RPTE Employee Benefit & Other Compensation Arrangements Group, Co-Chair and Past Chair of the ABA RPTE Welfare Plan Committee, Vice Chair of the ABA TIPS Employee Benefit Plans Committee, an ABA Joint Committee On Employee Benefits Council representative, Past Chair of the ABA Health Law Section Managed Care & Insurance Section, a Fellow in the American College of Employee Benefit Counsel, ABA, and State Bar of Texas, Ms. Stamer has more than 25 years’ experience advising health plan and employee benefit, insurance, financial services, employer and health industry clients about these and other matters. Ms. Stamer has extensive experience advising and assisting health plans and insurers about ACA, and a wide range of other plan design, administration, data security and privacy and other compliance risk management policies. Ms. Stamer also regularly represents clients and works with Congress and state legislatures, EBSA, IRS, EEOC, OCR and other HHS agencies, state insurance and other regulators, and others. She also publishes and speaks extensively on health and other employee benefit plan and insurance, staffing and human resources, compensation and benefits, technology, public policy, privacy, regulatory and public policy and other operations and risk management concerns. Her publications and insights appear in the Health Care Compliance Association, Atlantic Information Service, Bureau of National Affairs, World At Work, The Wall Street Journal, Business Insurance, the Dallas Morning News, Modern Health Care, Managed Healthcare, Health Leaders, and a many other national and local publications.

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