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Say an individual's self-directed IRA owns a business, and the individual is curious which (if any) services he can provide to the business (ex. offer consulting services). Question is, does this run afoul of the prohibited transaction rules? I'm thinking yes, with respect to Code Sec. 4975(c)(1)(C) - because it would involve a disqualified person furnishing services to a plan asset (akin to the individual being prohibited from providing free labor/repairs to an investment property owned by the self directed IRS). Curious if others agree, or have other thoughts.
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Participant wants to purchase rental property as an investment in his self-directed 401(k) account. Just throwing this out there, but does anyone suggest any good sources that cover the issues related to this sort of transaction? Any books, articles, IRS guidance, etc., that talk about the aspects of this transaction as the property is brought in the trust, issues while it is held in the Plan trust, issues that arise when the property is disposed by the trust, how the property is valued for ERISA and 5500 purposes, how the property can/cannot be used by the participant, etc.? Thanks in advance.
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Prudential administers our physician office's 401(k) plan. However, we have some physicians who have “self-directed” accounts which are an off-shoot of the company 401(k) plan and those funds are held at another brokerage firm such as Charles Schwab. We have a physician who is retired and wants to roll over his 401(k) to an IRA, but Prudential is telling us that this physician must first move his money from his self-directed account back into Prudential in order for Prudential to process the roll-over. The physician is questioning whether that is a legal requirement as he prefers not to move his money from Charles Schwab back to Prudential because the physician will not be able to replicate his Bond portfolio with Prudential. The physician would prefer to move his money directly from Charles Schwab to his IRA. Can anyone shed light on this? Is it possible to rollover directly from the self-directed 401(k) account to an IRA? Or must the self-directed account first be moved back to Prudential before the rollover can be processed? Thanks.
