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- AARP Drug Price Survey Overlooks Critical Factors, Says BIO
- Report Ignores Impact of Discounts, Rebates, Negotiated Prices and Patient Assistance Programs That Help Lower Drug Costs WASHINGTON -- The following statement was issued today by the Biotechnology Industry Organization BIO regarding a new survey from the AARP on price trends for biotechnology drugs: "The report issued yesterday...
- Research articles 2008-09-26
- HHS Secretary Declares Public Health Emergency for Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, and Alabama
- WASHINGTON -- HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt today declared a public health emergency to ensure that individuals, including those enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program SCHIP, in Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi and Alabama continue to receive their health care items and services. "Hurricane Gustav is quickly...
- Research articles 2008-09-01
- Rollover confusion
- It's now back up in the air whether employers must allow nonspouse rollovers from company retirement plans in 2008. On Dec. 29, 2007, President Bush signed The Tax Technical Corrections Act of 2007 into law. But, mysteriously, it doesn't include the provision making the nonspouse rollover mandatory for...
- Research articles 2008-06-01
- Rollover Confusion
- In the January issue which went to press in early December, I said that the Internal Revenue Service had reversed its position, and was now requiring company retirement plans to allow non-spouse rollovers in 2008. Not so fast! On Dec. 29, 2007, President Bush signed The Tax Technical Corrections Act...
- Research articles 2008-03-01
- DOL seeks $1,000-a-day fine for lack of retirement plan disclosures
- The U.S. Department of Labor has proposed a regulation that would allow it to assess fines of up to $1,000 a day against retirement plan administrators who fail to disclose certain documents to participants, beneficiaries and others as required by the Pension Protection Act.
- Research articles 2008-02-01
- PREFERENTIAL ELECTRICITY TARIFFS : ITALY ORDERED TO RECOVER 80 MILLION EURO IN AID.
- State aid in the form of a preferential electricity tariff reduces the beneficiary's operating costs and enables it to sell its products at a lower price, thus distorting competition with other EU producers who do not receive the same subsidies. That is the conclusion set out...
- Research articles 2007-12-05
- Current developments in employee benefits and pensions.(part 2)
- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY * Defined-benefit plan distribution rules have been amended to facilitate phased retirement alternatives for workers. * Regulations have been issued that clarify what are considered qualified distributions from Roth 401k accounts and the rules for rollover distributions from these...
- Research articles 2007-12-01
- 2008 Open Enrollment for Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Coverage and Medicare Advantage Plans Begins Today
- To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: CMS Office of Public Affairs, +1-202-690-6145 Campaign Features Major Outreach to Beneficiaries Eligible for Low Income Subsidies, Enhanced Publications and Online ToolsWASHINGTON, Nov. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HHS announced that, beginning today, Medicare beneficiaries will be able to begin making...
- Research articles 2007-11-15
- Cha-Ching! Seniors Enrolled in Medicare Prescription Drug Plans Might Be in for Sticker Shock Next Year
- To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: Bill Vaughan or Susan Herold of Consumers Union, +1-202- 462-6262 Consumers Union finds up to $1,900 annual increases in plan premiums, drug costs; urges beneficiaries to check plan costs during Nov. 15 open enrollment periodWASHINGTON, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Halloween may be over, but Medicare Part D...
- Research articles 2007-11-09
- Building a better rat trap: technological innovation, human capital, and the Irula
- This case follows Sethu Sethunarayanan, Director of the nonprofit Center for Development of Disadvantaged People, which is dedicated to the improvement of the Irula tribe in rural villages of southeast India. The Irulas specialize in catching rats, an activity which provides the bulk of their income and food. Following a...
- Research articles 2007-11-01
- How to Beat the High Cost of Living
- To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Susan Semeleer, senior manager of media relations, +1- 202-789-5212, Leigh Harrington, director of broadcasting, +1-202-789- 5204, both of the Cato Institute Government prohibitions against purchase of private medical care compromise patient healthWASHINGTON, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The move by the U.S. government to restrict the ability of...
- Research articles 2007-10-15
- Early Retirement: IRS-Approved Options for Early Withdrawals
- The IRS is relentless and unforgiving of mistakes when it comes to early withdrawals from pension plans or IRAs. Nevertheless, the applicable regulations provide options that may be employed to meet the needs of early retirees. For tax preparers, the key to maximizing these provisions is careful compliance with the...
- Research articles 2007-10-01
- Benefits under PPA '06 expand to include beneficiaries.(Pension Protection Act of 2006)
- The IRS has begun to follow through on the Pension Protection Act of 2006, P. L. 109-280 (PPA '06), to revise the rules for 401k, 403b, and 457b plans to allow for distributions to beneficiaries on account of hardship or unforeseeable emergency. Hardship Distributions...
- Research articles 2007-10-01
- Estate Planning and the Use of GRATs
- According to a Tax Court ailing in 2000, a tax-free transfer of estate assets can be achieved in certain circumstances through the use of a GRAT grantor retained annuity trust. How does a GRAT work and when should it be considered? A grantor creates a GRAT by transferring assets to...
- Research articles 2007-09-24
- Allocating partnership depreciation between trusts and beneficiaries: a trust owning depreciable property through a partnership may have a larger income tax burden than if it owned the assets directly. This article reviews how partnership depreciation is
- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY * A trust partner must separately account for its share of partnership depreciation deductions, when doing so would result in a different tax liability than if not separately accounted. * Sec. 167 provides that the depreciation deduction is to be...
- Research articles 2007-07-01
- Nonspouse beneficiary meets PPA '06 rollover requirements.(Pension Protection Act of 2006)
- A is the sole primary beneficiary in E's retirement plan, X. Prior to E's death, the sponsors resolved to terminate X. E completed a "Termination Distribution Form," selecting a direct rollover option to Y his preexisting IRA, also naming A as the sole beneficiary. However, the...
- Research articles 2007-07-01
- "Absolute entitlement" and its important for beneficiaries of deceased estates.
- Byline: Georgina Thomson and Joanna Marwood Jun 28, 2007 (Taxation in Australia - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Australian Taxation Office, the Treasury Department and the tax profession are currently working to clarify the meaning of "absolute entitlement". When considered in the context...
- Research articles 2007-06-28
- Price is everything for carbon emitters.
- Byline: Stephen Wisenthal Jun 04, 2007 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Emissions futures are likely to be traded on the Sydney Futures Exchange following the Australian Government's decision to allow carbon trading. However, experts say that the price of carbon...
- Research articles 2007-06-04
- Schirra polite, gracious with young reporter
- Monday morning, I spent a few minutes in my furnace room flipping through some old newspaper clippings from the early days of my newspaper career. I was looking for a story I had written about NASA astronaut Wally Schirra, who died last week. Unfortunately, I couldn't find it. ...
- Research articles 2007-05-08
- Asian tycoon left legacy to fortune-teller: report
- HONG KONG AFP — Asia's richest woman left her wealth to her fortune-teller in her last known will, Hong Kong media reported Thursday, predicting a costly legal battle to control her multi-billion-dollar estate. Nina Wang, who died aged 69 earlier this month and had no children, left a legacy...
- Research articles 2007-04-18
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