"Participants and plan sponsors should be aware that the IRS recently issued several pieces of guidance affecting qualified plans and IRA distributions. First, the IRS issued Notice 2014-54, which provides favorable guidance on plan distributions to multiple destinations. It allows a participant to directly roll over pre-tax funds to a traditional IRA, while taking the after-tax or Roth amounts in cash (or rolling to a Roth IRA). Second, the IRS issued Notice 2014-74, which replaces the existing safe harbor rollover notices set forth in Notice 2009-68. Third, the IRS issued Announcement 2014-32, that imposes an aggregate one-per-year rule for all indirect rollovers between IRAs following the surprising Tax Court decision in Bobrow v. Comm'r. [This article takes] a closer look at each in turn[.]"

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