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Marcel Weiland

About Marcel Weiland

Marcel handles all areas of employee benefits law that impact private sector and nonprofit employers, including ERISA and Internal Revenue Code compliance. Marcel is particularly known for finding creative solutions to correct retirement plan tax qualification and fiduciary issues in the IRS and Department of Labor voluntary correction programs.
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Retirement Plans

Oops! We’re in a Controlled Group of Companies. What Happens to Our 401(k) Plan Now?!

Whether you made the mistake of thinking that you were or were not in either a controlled group of companies (CG) or an affiliated service group (ASG), your plan will have fundamental tax qualification issues that must be corrected before you wind up ...
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Retirement Plans

Retirement Plans – IRS Gives New Options for Voluntary Correction But Also Takes Away

The IRS recently issued new guidance for voluntary correction of retirement plan qualification errors in Revenue Procedure 2021-30 (Rev. Proc).  The IRS has given practitioners more options for self-correction, including extension of the time for ...
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Equity & Executive Compensation

PPP FAQs: Will Retirement Plan Contributions Be Forgiven Under the Paycheck Protection Program?

Many have questioned how much of retirement plan contributions paid with PPP loans can be forgiven. On August 4, 2020, the Small Business Administration resolved one big question when it issued the latest FAQs on PPP Loan ...
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Retirement Plans Podcast

Retirement Plan Compensation Failures: A Tale Of Two Errors

Retirement plan compensation failures are one of the top ten most common errors submitted to the IRS's Voluntary Compliance Program. In this podcast, Marcel Weiland discusses two scenarios of compensation failures in the area where we see it most ...
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Retirement Plans Podcast

Retirement Plan Participant Loan Errors: Loan Caps And Repayment

In this podcast, Marcel Weiland discusses retirement plan participant loan errors involving IRS rules governing the loan caps and repayment schedule, the potential consequences of a compliance failure to the plan sponsor and employee, and plan ...
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Retirement Plans

EPCRS Not An Option For Self-Identified Plan Error?

The Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS) is a powerful self-correction tool provided by the IRS, giving plan sponsors the opportunity to right almost any self-identified error under its three component programs. But what about errors ...
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