US - The US Treasury has ruled companies cannot transfer their pension plans to an unrelated firm under current law, but has put forward a framework of principles to guide the development of legislation to allow such transactions.
Issuing the ruling, in conjunction with the Internal Revenue Service, the Treasury said the transfer of a tax-qualified pension plan from an employer to an unrelated taxpayer was not permissible if...
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