Merry-go-round

The Annual IRA Merry-Go-Round IRA Basic Issues and Advanced Issues

 

What an IRA merry-go-round 2020 was and continued to be in 2021 and 2022. Since the SECURE Act was signed into law on December 20, 2019, effective January 1, 2021, you would think all the IRS clarifications would have been released. And the IRS did propose regulations in February 2022 which were intended to clarify the 2019 SECURE Act but have, in some cases, increased industry confusion and frustration. Moreover, we are still wrestling with some of the residual effects of the CARES Act of 2020. Even further, although the dust has yet to settle on the 2019 SECURE Act, Congress appears poised to pass additional IRA legislation (“SECURE Act 2.0”). The bottom line? There are simply too many issues and potential pitfalls financial institutions will experience without a working knowledge of these changes. Rules have changed, new forms have been introduced, IRA software has been updated and there are more changes yet to come