2016 Form 5500

[Tom Poje]

looks like the IRS has decided we don't have to answer all those extra questions in 2016.guess they still haven't gotten approval for them yet!
from their website:
https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/irs-compliance-questions-on-the-2015-and-2016-form-5500-series-returns


IRS Compliance Questions on the 2015 and 2016 Form 5500-Series Returns

The IRS added compliance questions to Forms 5500, 5500-SF, 5500-EZ and Schedules H, I and R. The IRS has decided that filers should not answer these questions for the 2015 and the 2016 plan years when completing the forms:
•Form 5500
Preparer Information (page 1 bottom)


•Schedule H ◦2015 plan year: Lines 4o-p, 6a-d
◦2016 plan year: Lines 4o, 6a-d



•Schedule I ◦2015 plan year: Lines 4o-p, 6a-d
◦2016 plan year: Lines 4o, 6a-d



•Schedule R ◦2015 plan year: New Part VII (Lines 20a-c, 21a-b, 22a-d, and 23)
◦2016 plan year: Part VII (Lines 20a-b, 21a-b, and 22a-b)



•Form 5500-SF ◦2015 plan year: Preparer Information (page 1 bottom), Lines 10j, 14a-d, and New Part IX (Lines 15a-c, 16a-b, 17a-d, 18, 19, and 20)
◦2016 plan year: Preparer Information (page 1 bottom), Lines 14a-d, and Part IX
(Lines 15a-b, 16a-b, 17a-b, 18, and 19)


•Form 5500-EZ
◦2015 plan year: Preparer Information (page 2 bottom), Lines 4a-d, 13a-d, 14, 15, and 16
◦2016 plan year: Preparer Information (page 2 bottom), Lines 4a-d, 13a-b, 14, and 15

Page Last Reviewed or Updated: 05-Oct-2016

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good grief, I can hear you crying and moaning way down here in Florida, and I've hardly even posted this. Get over it and deal with it already!

[K2retire]

Oh goody -- another year of explaining to clients why that section of the form is blank.