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ERISA Compliance & Enforcement Library™

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What this service is:

This is your all-in-one source for navigating ERISA compliance and audit programs, handling litigation, and responding to enforcement. BNA gives you footnoted, common-sense guidance—from professionals, for professionals.

What it helps you do:

• Make informed decisions to discover and resolve problems with the plans you advise or represent as an attorney, consultant, accountant, or plan fiduciary, administrator, or sponsor.
• Turn to the top names in the field for authoritative guidance and practical, expert interpretations of how each program works and how to expedite procedures. You’ll recognize the names of Library contributors from publications, conferences, seminars, or their previous high-level positions with government agencies.
• Take advantage of the opportunities presented by voluntary compliance programs. Discover how to identify and self-correct violations of ERISA and tax regulations. Head off audits by IRS, DOL, PBGC, which, once begun, end the chance for self-correction and increase the potential for stiff fines.
• Have a solid benchmark to advise clients on voluntary compliance, comparing your plan’s status against the corrections outlined in the Voluntary Compliance Summaries.
• Learn strategies to limit the scope of an audit that your plan may be forced to undergo. Find out how to prepare, work with a government agent, understand the nature and severity of violations discovered, reach an agreement on corrections, negotiate penalties, and, ultimately, prevent plan disqualification.
• Have a road map of options for resolving problems with succinct, easy-to-read, to-the-point reports. Each covers a constellation of rules applicable to an issue, the pros and cons of possible responses, practice tips, and full-text statutes and regulations.
• Boost your expertise and save time, even if you’re already an expert. The Library distills information from a wide range of legal and professional sources that you’d otherwise have to find yourself.

Sections:

• ERISA Compliance & Enforcement Strategy Guide is a collection of reports discussing IRS, DOL, and PBGC voluntary programs, enforcement initiatives, audits, investigations, and litigation of qualified retirement plans, executive compensation, and health, and fringe benefits; additional reports cover employment taxes and benefit issues, international benefits, and the role of technology in compliance.
• Voluntary Compliance Summaries outline corrections of qualified retirement plan problems through IRS’s Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System. The summaries, compiled by Seth Tievsky, are confidential and anonymous but are based on actual corrections and contain the compliance statement date and program under which the correction was made, the violated tax code section and topic, a brief description of the problem, and the correction suggested by the IRS.
• Practice Tools include sample letters, checklists, and model documents.
• Selected Enforcement Documents include agency manuals, advisory opinions, revenue procedures, and other useful materials, and are found with other agency documents.
• Laws, Regulations, & Agency Documents include the up-to-date full text of relevant statutes, regulations, and source documents from the IRS, EBSA, SEC, and PBGC.

Product Structure

Reference: analysis, guidance and primary source material

Notification: Web news highlights; Benefits & Compensation Management Update news and developments

Formats and Frequency

Front page news is updated daily on the Web.

Web reference material is updated weekly, with weekly e-mail highlights.

Print newsletter is issued biweekly.