Rev. Proc. 2021- 30 TABLE OF CONTENTS PART I. INTRODUCTION ...

Rev. Proc. 2021-30

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I. INTRODUCTION TO EMPLOYEE PLANS COMPLIANCE RESOLUTION SYSTEM ........................................................................................................................6

SECTION 1. PURPOSE AND OVERVIEW ...................................................................6 .01 Purpose .........................................................................................................6 .02 General principles underlying EPCRS...........................................................6 .03 Overview........................................................................................................7

SECTION 2. EFFECT OF THIS REVENUE PROCEDURE ON PROGRAMS ..............7 .01 Effect on programs ........................................................................................7 .02 Correction of Overpayment (defined benefit plans) .......................................8 .03 Description of other modifications................................................................10 .04 Future enhancements..................................................................................11

PART II. PROGRAM EFFECT AND ELIGIBILITY.......................................................11

SECTION 3. EFFECT OF EPCRS; RELIANCE ..........................................................11 .01 Effect of EPCRS on retirement plans ..........................................................11 .02 Compliance statement.................................................................................12 .03 Excise and other taxes ................................................................................12 .04 Reliance.......................................................................................................12

SECTION 4. PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY........................................................................12 .01 EPCRS Programs........................................................................................12 .02 Effect of examination ...................................................................................13 .03 SCP eligibility requirements relating to plan documents..............................13 .04 Established practices and procedures.........................................................14 .05 Correction by plan amendment....................................................................15 .06 Availability of correction for Employer Eligibility Failures and Demographic Failures .............................................................................................................. 16 .07 Availability of correction for a terminated plan .............................................16 .08 Availability of correction for an Orphan Plan................................................16 .09 Availability of correction for ? 457(b) plans..................................................17 .10 Egregious failures........................................................................................17 .11 Diversion or misuse of plan assets ..............................................................17 .12 Abusive tax avoidance transactions ............................................................18

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PART III. DEFINITIONS, CORRECTION PRINCIPLES, AND RULES OF GENERAL APPLICABILITY ...........................................................................................................19

SECTION 5. DEFINITIONS.........................................................................................19 .01 Definitions for Qualified Plans......................................................................19 .02 Definitions for ? 403(b) Plans ......................................................................23 .03 Definitions for Orphan Plans........................................................................26 .04 Earnings ......................................................................................................26 .05 IRA ..............................................................................................................26 .06 SEP .............................................................................................................26 .07 SIMPLE IRA Plan ........................................................................................27 .08 Under Examination ......................................................................................27

SECTION 6. CORRECTION PRINCIPLES AND RULES OF GENERAL APPLICABILITY ...........................................................................................................28

.01 Correction principles; rules of general applicability......................................28 .02 Correction principles....................................................................................28 .03 Correction of an Employer Eligibility Failure ................................................35 .04 Correction of a failure to obtain spousal consent.........................................36 .05 Determination letter application not permitted .............................................37 .06 Special rules relating to Excess Amounts....................................................38 .07 Correction of plan loan failures ....................................................................43 .08 Correction under statute or regulations .......................................................45 .09 Matters subject to excise or other taxes ......................................................46 .10 Correction for ? 403(b) Plans.......................................................................47 .11 Correction for SEPs and SIMPLE IRA Plans ...............................................48 .12 Confidentiality and disclosure ......................................................................50 .13 No effect on other law..................................................................................50

PART IV. SELF-CORRECTION (SCP) .......................................................................51

SECTION 7. AVAILABILITY OF SCP FOR CERTAIN OPERATIONAL FAILURES AND PLAN DOCUMENT FAILURES ...........................................................................51

.01 In general.....................................................................................................51 .02 Operational Failures ....................................................................................51 .03 Plan Document Failures ..............................................................................51

SECTION 8. SELF-CORRECTION OF INSIGNIFICANT OPERATIONAL FAILURES 52 .01 Requirements ..............................................................................................52 .02 Factors.........................................................................................................52 .03 Multiple failures............................................................................................52 .04 Examples.....................................................................................................52

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SECTION 9. SELF-CORRECTION OF CERTAIN SIGNIFICANT OPERATIONAL FAILURES AND PLAN DOCUMENT FAILURES.........................................................54

.01 Requirements ..............................................................................................54 .02 Correction period .........................................................................................54 .03 Substantial completion of correction............................................................54 .04 Examples.....................................................................................................55

PART V. VOLUNTARY CORRECTION PROGRAM WITH IRS APPROVAL (VCP)...56

SECTION 10. VCP PROCEDURES............................................................................56 .01 VCP pre-submission conference .................................................................56 .02 VCP requirements .......................................................................................57 .03 Identification of failures ................................................................................57 .04 Effect of VCP submission on examination ...................................................57 .05 No concurrent examination activity..............................................................57 .06 Determination letter applications not related to a VCP submission .............58 .07 Processing of submission ............................................................................58 .08 Compliance statement.................................................................................61 .09 Effect of compliance statement on examination ..........................................63 .10 Anonymous submissions not permitted .......................................................63 .11 Special rules relating to group submissions.................................................63 .12 Multiemployer and multiple employer plans.................................................65

SECTION 11. SUBMISSION PROCEDURES FOR VCP............................................65 .01 General rules ...............................................................................................65 .02 Submission of model forms .........................................................................66 .03 Mandatory Submission Process using the website........................67 .04 PDF file submission contents ......................................................................68 .05 User fee due at the time of VCP submission using the website.....71 .06 Additional user fee due for group submissions ............................................71 .07 Additional amounts due for certain submissions..........................................71 .08 Power of attorney requirements...................................................................71 .09 Acknowledgement of filing ...........................................................................72 .10 Maintenance of copies of submissions ........................................................72 .11 Assembling the submission .........................................................................72

SECTION 12. VCP USER FEES.................................................................................74 .01 User fees .....................................................................................................74

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PART VI. CORRECTION ON AUDIT (AUDIT CAP)....................................................74

SECTION 13. DESCRIPTION OF AUDIT CAP...........................................................74 .01 Audit CAP requirements ..............................................................................74 .02 Payment of sanction ....................................................................................74 .03 Additional requirements ...............................................................................75 .04 Failure to reach resolution ...........................................................................75 .05 Effect of closing agreement .........................................................................75 .06 Other procedural rules.................................................................................75

SECTION 14. AUDIT CAP SANCTION........................................................................75 .01 Determination of sanction ............................................................................75 .02 Factors considered ......................................................................................75 .03 Transferred Assets ......................................................................................77 .04 Sanction for Nonamender Failures discovered during the determination letter application process............................................................................................77

PART VII. EFFECT ON OTHER DOCUMENTS; EFFECTIVE DATE; PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT........................................................................................................78

SECTION 15. EFFECT ON OTHER DOCUMENTS....................................................78

SECTION 16. EFFECTIVE DATE ...............................................................................78

SECTION 17. PUBLIC COMMENTS...........................................................................79

SECTION 18. PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT........................................................79

DRAFTING INFORMATION.........................................................................................80

APPENDIX A................................................................................................................81

OPERATIONAL FAILURES AND CORRECTION METHODS.....................................81 .01 General rule.................................................................................................81 .02 Failure to properly provide the minimum top-heavy benefit under ? 416 to non-key employees ...........................................................................................82 .03 Failure to satisfy the ADP test set forth in ? 401(k)(3), the ACP test set forth in ? 401(m)(2), or, for plan years beginning on or before December 31, 2001, the multiple use test of ? 401(m)(9) ...................................................................82 .04 Failure to distribute elective deferrals in excess of the ? 402(g) limit (in contravention of ? 401(a)(30)) ...........................................................................82 .05 Exclusion of an eligible employee from all contributions or accruals under the plan for one or more plan years...................................................................83 Page 4 of 140

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.06 Failure to timely pay the minimum distribution required under ? 401(a)(9)..93 .07 Failure to obtain participant or spousal consent for a distribution subject to the participant and spousal consent rules under ?? 401(a)(11), 411(a)(11), and 417 ....................................................................................................................93 .08 Failure to satisfy the ? 415 limits in a defined contribution plan...................94 .09 Orphan Plans; orphan contracts and other assets.......................................95

APPENDIX B................................................................................................................97

CORRECTION METHODS AND EXAMPLES; EARNINGS ADJUSTMENT METHODS AND EXAMPLES .........................................................................................................97

SECTION 1. PURPOSE, ASSUMPTIONS FOR EXAMPLES AND SECTION REFERENCES ............................................................................................................. 97

.01 Purpose .......................................................................................................97 .02 Assumptions for Examples ..........................................................................97 .03 Designated Roth contributions.....................................................................98 .04 Section references.......................................................................................98

SECTION 2. CORRECTION METHODS AND EXAMPLES.........................................98 .01 ADP/ACP Failures .......................................................................................98 .02 Exclusion of Otherwise Eligible Employees ...............................................101 .03 Vesting Failures.........................................................................................117 .04 Section 415(c) Failures and Correction of Overpayments (Defined Contribution Plans and ? 403(b) Plans)...........................................................119 .05 Section 415(b) Failures and Correction of Overpayments (Defined Benefit Plans) ..............................................................................................................121 .06 ? 401(a)(17) Failures .................................................................................129 .07 Correction by Amendment .........................................................................130

SECTION 3. EARNINGS ADJUSTMENT METHODS AND EXAMPLES ..................133 .01 Earnings Adjustment Methods...................................................................133 .02 Examples...................................................................................................136

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