Compliance December 22, 2011
IRS Extends Deadline for Opinion and Advisory Letter Applications
December 22, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has extended the application deadline for opinion and advisory letters for pre-approved defined contribution plan documents.
Reported by Rebecca Moore
Announcement 2012-3 extends to April 2, 2012, the deadline to submit on-cycle applications for opinion and advisory letters for pre-approved defined contribution plans for the plans’ second six-year remedial amendment cycle. Under Rev. Proc. 2007-44, 2007-2 C.B. 54, and Rev. Proc. 2011-49, 2011-44 I.R.B. 608, the submission period for these applications was scheduled to expire on January 31, 2012.
The extension provided by the announcement applies to the deadline for submitting on-cycle applications for opinion and advisory letters for mass submitter lead plans, word-for-word identical plans, master and prototype plan minor modifier placeholder applications and non-mass submitter defined contribution plans.
Announcement 2012-3 is at http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/a-12-03.pdf.You Might Also Like:

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