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Surgent's Comparing and Contrasting Retirement Plans for Small- and Medium-Sized Businesses

Friday, January 3
 10:00am - 12:00pm

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2.00 Credits

Member Price $99.00

Non-Member Price $134.00

Overview

Clients often ask their tax advisors whether they have the “best” pension plan and whether they are using it to its maximum advantage. This program explains how various pension plans work and analyzes why a small or medium-sized business owner would choose one plan over another.

Objectives

  • Understand the advantages and disadvantages of the major pension-planning options for small- and medium-sized business owners
  • Help clients evaluate pension plan options and select the best pension-planning option for them

Highlights

  • Factors business owners should take into account when choosing a retirement plan
  • SIMPLE plans
  • Simplified employee pension plans
  • 401(k) plans
  • Defined benefit plans
  • Ensuring eligible employees are covered
  • Employees’ impact on choice of plan
  • Ongoing compliance requirements
  • Establishing a plan after the tax year end
  • Changes to safe harbor 401(k) plans
  • Pooled employer plans

Designed For

Any tax practitioner who will advise a business owner about selecting a pension plan for his or her business

Prerequisites

Basic individual income taxation rules

Preparation

None

Notice

To access this program, log into your CTCPA account at https://www.ctcpas.org/my-cpe/upcoming and click on the orange “Launch Event” button.

Leader(s):

Leader Bios

Michael Tucker, Surgent McCoy CPE, LLC

MICHAEL J. TUCKER, CPA, MBA, J.D., LL.M., Ph.D. Mike is an employee of Surgent McCoy CPE, LLC. He authors materials and scripts for the monthly Edward Jones sponsored All Star Tax programs. Mike also writes materials for and conducts almost daily webinars on a variety of tax related topics. Mike works in the offices of T. M. Byxbee Company, CPAs, Mike’s duties at T.M. Byxbee Co. involve advising individual and business clients on a wide variety of transactional matters. Mike was formerly a professor of accounting at Quinnipiac University, in Hamden, CT, where he taught graduate and undergraduate law and tax programs. Mike received his J.D. from New York University and his LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center. He is a CPA and received his Ph.D. from the University of Houston.

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Non-Member Price $134.00

Member Price $99.00