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If your company offers an employee benefit plan under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”), you are likely required to file Form 5500.
Executive Summary: The Form 5500 is an annual report that must be filed for every employee benefit plan that covers 100 or more participants. For calendar year plans, these forms must be filed by July 31, 2017.
The IRS added new compliance questions to the 2015 IRS Form 5500/5500-SF, which is the annual report filed by retirement plans with the Department of Labor and the IRS. The Form 5500 instructions, however, specifically provide that plan sponsors should not complete these questions for the 2015 plan
Over this past summer, the Surface Transportation and Veterans Health Care Choice Improvement Act of 2015 (the "Surface Transportation Act") included a provision that extended by a month the automatic extension that is available to Form 5500-series filers, to be effective with the filing of the 2016
On July 31, 2015, President Obama signed the "Surface Transportation and Veterans Health Care Choice Improvement Act of 2015" (P.L. 114-41) (the "Act"). The Act primarily served to extend the Highway Trust Fund and various related measures, but it also included a number of unrelated provisions, one
Executive Summary: The Form 5500 and Form 5500-EZ are annual reports that must be filed for every employee benefit plan that covers 100 or more participants. For calendar year plans, these forms must be filed by July 31, 2015.
Executive Summary: Administrators or sponsors of employee benefit plans subject to ERISA generally must file information regarding each benefit plan every year. This information is filed using Form 5500. For calendar year plans, these forms must be filed by July 31, 2014.
Executive Summary: The Form 5500, Annual Return/Report of Employee Benefit Plan, is used to report information concerning employee benefit plans and must be filed by the last day of the 7th calendar month after the end of the plan year, which is July 31, 2012 for calendar year plans.