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Normally, this time of year is about helping our clients navigate the tax code and plan for the future. Now we are all navigating a different challenge. At CS&L CPAs, the health and safety of our employees, our families, our clients and our community is our top priority. We have initiated some steps to help ensure we continue to be there for our employees, our clients and the community while doing our part to help slow the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). Effective Monday, March 23rd, we will close our physical offices and we have moved the majority of our employees to work remotely. We are still at full capacity with effective security in place. We will continue to work to keep in contact by phone, by email and by video conferencing.
We will provide updates on our “In the News” tab of this web site and through email communications as the situation changes.
Thank you to all of our employees, families and clients as we work through the our new environment together.
Regards,
Robert Stanell, Managing Principal
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CARES Act Update: 2020 Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) Rules for Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs)
The IRS recently announced in Notice 2020-51 that taxpayers who already took a required minimum distribution (RMD) in 2020 from certain retirement accounts now have the opportunity to roll those funds back into a retirement account by August 31, 2020. The IRS has provided guidance on rollover opportunities, answers to frequently asked questions, and sample plan amendments for plan administers following the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act RMD waiver for 2020.
RMD rules. The CARES Act waives all RMDs for 2020, regardless of whether the taxpayer has been impacted by the pandemic. The waiver under the CARES ACT applies for calendar year 2020 to defined contribution plans, certain annuity plans, and traditional or Roth IRAs (the waiver does not apply to defined-benefit plans). The waiver allows seniors to hold on to their plan assets when they might otherwise have to sell at market lows. There may be an additional benefit of the waiver for taxpayers who turned 70 ½ in 2019 and did not take their first required distribution in 2019. For those individuals who chose to wait until April 1, 2020 and had not yet taken the distribution at the time legislation was passed, they can waive both the 2019 and 2020 RMDs.