IRS Releases 2019 Retirement Plan and IRA COLA-Based Limitation Amounts

The IRS released its 2019 Cost-of-Living-Adjusted Limitation Amounts for tax-qualified retirement plans and IRAs, the most important of which are summarized below. The entire list is available in Notice 2018-83:

What does CohnReznick Think?

The IRS regularly provides updates to various tax matters that are impacted by inflation. The changes noted above are regular, annual changes of which you may need to be aware. As you know, there were significant tax changes made as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“Act”). You should consider the above together with changes made in the Act in doing your annual 2018 year-end tax planning.

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For more information, please contact Dana Fried, Managing Director, National Tax, at Dana.Fried@CohnReznick.com or 516-417-5064.

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