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Category: Alex’s Corner

APRIL 19: MEET CONGRESSMAN ROBERT ANDREWS

CO-CHAIR HOUSE DEMOCRATIC STEERING AND POLICY COMMITTEE
Please join Alex Brucker of Brucker & Morra at a reception for Congressman Robert Andrews on Friday, April 19, 2013, at 8:00AM at the offices of Green Hasson Janks in Westwood (Los Angeles), CA.  Twelve-term Congressman Andrews was recently appointed Co-Chair of the House Democratic Caucus Steering and Policy Committee. 

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President’s budget to set value limits on retirement accumulation

WSJ.com — Now He’s After Your 401(k)

The White House pulls a switcheroo on retirement savings accounts.

How many times have you read financial-advice stories lecturing you to max-out on your IRA, save as much as you can in your 401(k), and even pay taxes now to change your regular IRA into a Roth IRA that will be tax-free until you die?

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Alex Brucker’s Letter to IRS Results in Pilot Penalty Relief Program–6 years later!

Six years ago, on April 22, 2008, as a twenty-year member of ASPPA and a Director of the Small Business Council of America, I filed  a Position Paper with the Internal Revenue Service TE/GE entitled, “The Time is Now to Remedy the Inequity Applied to American Small Businesses Respecting the Late Filing of IRS Form 5500-EZ.”  The Position Paper set forth what I believed would be the most reasonable and equitable remedy to the application of late filing penalties to “employer-sponsors” for the failure to timely prepare and file IRS Form 55–EZ.

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