Appendix F

[Randy Watson]

I have a qualification failure (failure to adopt discretionary amendment) that qualifies for an Appendix F streamlined submission. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears that I submit Appendix F, the user fee and any other enclosures I identify in the Appendix. That means no plan document is necessary, no complete description of the failure, no Appendix C checklist etc... I think I'm reading it correctly, and it makes sense to only include what I identified above since this is supposed to be "streamlined". Please let me know what you all think. Thank you!

[Kevin C]

You will need to submit a completed Appendix F and Schedule 1 and/or Schedule 2 as applicable. You do not complete Appendix C. The description of the failure, the proposed correction method and the description of the change in procedures are part of the schedule(s).

The IRS has pdf files for Appendix F and the schedules that you can fill out. You can't save changes using adobe reader, so I don't consider that very useful. The agent on the filing I just finished wanted me to redo the filing using these .pdf files because she didn't like the way it looked when I copied and pasted them from their website into word.

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/vc_appendix_f.pdf

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/vc_appendix_f_schedule_1.pdf

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/vc_appendix_f_schedule_2.pdf

The links to these are on http://www.irs.gov/retirement/article/0,,id=205524,00.html

in the Relief for Nonamender Failures under VCP section.

[Guest Sieve]

Kevin --

If you have Adobe Acrobat X Standard (which is what we have), you can, in fact, fill-in, save, revise, save, etc., etc.

I don't know what that is--i.e., whether it is an advanced reader or if it also converts docs to PDF (which I know I can do on my computer)--but it works with the EPCRS fill-in forms.