"Have a new client where they have both a Cash Balance and Profit Sharing Plan:

• Profit Sharing is immediate entry
• Cash Balance is 21 & 1 (1/1 & 7/1 entry dates)

So we have people eligible for the Profit Sharing and not the Cash Balance. When we do the testing for both plans (like the Rate Groups), do we include the people who are in just the Profit Sharing Plan? I just wanted to confirm, because those profit sharing contributions significantly help the testing."

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"A parent company plan sponsor has affiliates that are part of an affiliated group as defined by the Code. The plan document states that employees of the affiliates can participate in the parent company plan as long as the affiliated companies adopt the parent's plan. Unfortunately, employees of the affiliates participate in the parent's plan, but the affiliates never adopted the plan, and the plan is now under investigation by the IRS.

My proposed solution is that SCP allows for self correction of insignificant operational errors even if the plan is under investigation. I can make a good argument that this is an operational error since the plan document was not followed, and that its insignificant since it only involves a handful of employees and the dollar amounts involved are very small. Thus, I propose having the affiliates adopt the parent plan and such adoption would be dated and signed currently by the affiliates, but it would be drafted to have retroactive effect back to the date the affiliated employees started to participate in the plan. Any comments or concerns with this approach using SCP?"

"Employer needs to make a SEP-IRA contribution, and an employee is unable to open an account to receive her contribution because she could be undocumented, and that's blocking custodians from opening an account for her. Any idea what the employer should do if a custodian won't open an account to receive the contribution?"

"One of the partners in the 401k plan has negative self-employment income (line 14a). Of course, the partner deferred into the plan.... $12,000. I brought this up to the CPA. He's saying that while the partnership lost money, the PPP forgiveness is creating a positive situation for the partner. Do I care about the PPP forgiveness and just go with the line 14a? In this situation could I leave $6,500 catch up in the plan and 415 refund the $5,500? Need some insight on this situation on what to do."