The IRS has opened up an employee plan compliance project on SIMPLE IRAs; it’s eyeing whether employer with SIMPLE IRAs are eligible small businesses…those with 100 or fewer employees. The agency is mailing questionnaires to firms that both sponsor SIMPLE IRAs and filed over 100 W-2s for at least two consecutive years between 2012 and 2014. Failing to respond to the letters could lead to an audit.
Source: The Kiplinger Letter, November 18, 2016