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Who Are Highly Compensated & Key Employees?

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Why Does My Year-End Census Require Ownership and Family Information?

Facts We’ve compiled our year end census information, and we are now turning out attention to the accompanying questionnaire. I’m being asked for additional information such as ownership percentages, ...
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Can We Offer Additional Matching Contributions Without Losing our Safe Harbor Status?

Facts We currently sponsor a 401(k) plan for our company. While we certainly want to be able to provide meaningful benefits to the owners, our goal is to encourage all our employees to save more for ...
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How Do We Identify Highly Compensated Employees for the First Year Our Company Exists?

Facts We established our company on February 1st of this year, and now we are planning to launch our 401(k) plan. We know there are number of tests and determinations that require us to look at ...
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Top Heavy vs. ADP: What's the Difference?

Facts As a plan sponsor, I do my best to review the annual compliance reports my TPA sends to me, but to be honest, it might as well be written in a foreign language. For example, several of our ...
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Why Does Your TPA Need Personal & Ownership Details from Company Owners?

Facts Our company sponsors a 401(k) plan for our employees. The owners of the company have always been somewhat secretive in terms of sharing detailed information about themselves and their families. ...
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Do 401(k) Testing Requirement Apply to Owner-Only Plans?

Facts I and my three business partners each own 25% of our company. We do not have any employees other than the four of us. We would like to set up a retirement plan, but we know there are ...
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Nondiscrimination Testing Overview

When creating the retirement plan system, Congress included significant tax benefits as an incentive for employers to put plans in place and for employees to save for their own retirement. It was ...
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