Toolbox for Finance Topics Tax Blogs IRS Audits 419, 412i, Captive Insurance Plans With Life Insurance, and Section 79 Scams Companies should carefully evaluate proposed investments in plans such as the Benistar Plan. The claimed deductions will not be available, and penalties will be assessed for lack of disclosure if the investment is similar to the investments described in Notice 95-34. In addition, under IRC 6707A, IRS fines participants a large amount of money for not properly disclosing their participation in listed, reportable or similar transactions; an issue that was not before the Tax Court in either Curcio or McGehee. The disclosure needs to be made for every year the participant is in a plan. The forms need to be properly filed even for years that no contributions are made. I have received numerous calls from participants who did disclose and still got fined because the forms were not filled in properly. A plan administrator told me that he assisted hundreds of his participants file forms, and they still all received very large IRS fines for not properly filling in the forms.
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Companies should carefully evaluate proposed investments in plans such as the Benistar Plan. The claimed deductions will not be available, and penalties will be assessed for lack of disclosure if the investment is similar to the investments described in Notice 95-34. In addition, under IRC 6707A, IRS fines participants a large amount of money for not properly disclosing their participation in listed, reportable or similar transactions; an issue that was not before the Tax Court in either Curcio or McGehee. The disclosure needs to be made for every year the participant is in a plan. The forms need to be properly filed even for years that no contributions are made. I have received numerous calls from participants who did disclose and still got fined because the forms were not filled in properly. A plan administrator told me that he assisted hundreds of his participants file forms, and they still all received very large IRS fines for not properly filling in the forms.
IRS has been attacking all 419 welfare benefit plans, many 4
Expert Witness Directoryching professionals, Wallach is a frequent speaker on retirement plans, financial and estate planning, and abusive tax shelters. He is also a featured writer and has been interviewed on television and financial talk shows including NBC, National Public Radio’s All Things Considered and others. Lance authored Protecting Clients from Fraud, Incompetence and Scams published by John Wiley and Sons, Bisk Education’s CPA’s Guide to Life Insurance and Federal Estate and Gift Taxation, as well as AICPA best-selling books including Avoiding Circular 230 Malpractice Traps and Common Abusive Small Business Hot Spots.
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The expert on IRS audits of 419e and 412i plans, 6707A, listed and reportable transactions,Section 79, captive insurance and abusive tax shelters
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Lance WallachJanuary 27, 2015 at 11:00 AM
The Offices of Lance Wallach :
"America's leading Financial
Services firm "(TM)
Lance Wallach,
Managing Director
Financial Planning
Divison
Call us today:
516-938-5007
Email us at:
LanWalla@aol.com
The Lance Wallach advantage is credibility, experience & trust !!
Many advisory firms offer financial planning and investment services,
but the difference is that Lance Wallach wrote the books on Life
Insurance, Financial & Estate planning that the other consultants
learned from!
If you want to sleep soundly at night, don't go to the students for your
financial answers, go to the one who teaches them, Lance Wallach!
For the past 25 years, successful businesses and individuals have
turned to Lance Wallach and his team for assistance, and they are
glad they did!