IRA

The IRS released a new withholding form on January 4, 2022: Form W-4R, Withholding Certificate for Nonperiodic Payments and Eligible Rollover Distributions. The IRS also issued a revised Form W-4P, Withholding Certificate for Pension or Annuity Payments. As a result, payers and individuals will have a new process for calculating and electing federal income tax withholding on retirement distributions. Although the IRS will not require payers to use the new and revised forms until January 1, 2023, payers may start using them in 2022.

At the end of 2019, the President signed the most comprehensive retirement reform package in over a decade: the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act. The SECURE Act is one of multiple bills that were included in the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (FCAA).