| B001 — Q1/Q4: plan, tax, ERISA coverage unknown |
Answered; application held. Distinguish §72(p), §4975, Title I, Part 4, §403(b), and governmental/non-governmental §457 categories. C003–C010; S001–S003, S014–S016, S026–S027, S034–S037. |
All plan-category, employer, employee, election, and qualification facts. |
“Retirement plan” means every regime applies identically. |
What are the complete current federal predicates for the particular generic plan category, without identifying a plan? |
| B002 — Q1/Q5: entitlement versus permitted feature |
Answered. A permitted tax feature and statutory ceiling do not create a right to a loan; the program’s terms matter. C006, C080; S020, S013. |
Whether any loan feature or narrower limit exists. |
The maximum must be lent on request. |
What restrictions may a generic loan program impose consistently with §408(b)(1)? |
| B003 — Q1: initial maximum and lookback |
Answered. The new loan plus other balances must pass both statutory ceilings and the one-year lookback. C013–C015; E001; S001–S002. |
H, B, V, N, valuation method, dates, excluded contributions. |
Recent repayment automatically restores USD 50,000 capacity. |
How do published rules measure balances where accrued interest or multiple loans affect the statutory base? |
| B004 — Q1: related employers/plans |
Answered at statutory level; detailed application held. Apply §414(b), (c), (m) before treating all resulting employer plans as one. C016; S001, S003. |
Relationships, attribution, service-group and church-control predicates. |
Separate names establish separate limits. |
Which published attribution and affiliated-service-group regulations are necessary for a specified generic relationship? |
| B005 — Q1: multiple loans/refinancing |
Answered. Later-maturity replacement can require dual counting; the two-component exception has its own amortization requirements. C019–C020; E003; S002. |
Original term, replacement terms, balances, prior suspensions. |
A refinancing always resets five years. |
What additional published guidance explains Q&A-20’s two-component exception without selecting transaction facts? |
| B006 — Q1: residence use versus collateral |
Answered; detailed tracing bounded. Acquisition use, timely intended principal-residence use, and tracing control; collateral alone does not. C025–C028; E002; S001–S002, S017–S018. |
Use of proceeds, dwelling use, acquisition timing, third-party refinancing premises. |
A home-secured loan automatically gets the longer term. |
Which official tracing rules under §163(h)(3)(B) specifically govern Q&A-7 acquisition tracing? |
| B007 — Q1/Q4: enforceable agreement versus plan program |
Answered federally; enforceability held. Q&A-3’s agreement and §2550.408b-1(d)’s written program are separate requirements. C018, C080; S002, S013. |
Agreement and program terms; applicable enforceability law. |
A signed note proves all tax and ERISA compliance. |
What federal electronic-document rules does Q&A-3 incorporate through §1.401(a)-21? |
| B008 — Q1: ordinary repayment versus exception |
Answered. Five-year term and quarterly-or-more-frequent substantially level amortization apply unless the precise exception changes the relevant requirement. C023–C024, C029–C035; S001–S002. |
Schedule and exception predicates. |
Any hardship or home reference waives all repayment rules. |
Does the identified generic exception alter term, amortization, amount, or only one of them? |
| B009 — Q1/Q2: ordinary leave |
Answered. The limited unpaid/low-pay leave suspension does not itself extend the ordinary latest term. C029; E002; S002. |
Bona fide leave, net-pay relationship, duration, resumed schedule. |
One year of leave automatically adds one year to maturity. |
How does Q&A-9(a) coordinate accrued interest and post-leave installments within the original permissible term? |
| B010 — Q1/Q2: military suspension |
Partial. Suspension and resumption rules are established; frozen-date chapter-43 reconstruction remains bounded. C030–C031, C086; E002; S002–S003, S028. |
Covered service, covered plan, suspension, service completion; full historical definition verification. |
Every military absence has identical tax, interest, and contractual effects. |
What was the complete relevant chapter-43 text as of December 12, 1994, including intervening amendments? |
| B011 — Q1/Q2: disaster exception |
Partial. Increased limits and repayment-delay clauses are read; competing “applicable period” language is unresolved. C032–C035; S001, S029. |
Every disaster, location, loss, timing, and plan-feature premise; original-act verification. |
A disaster reference automatically permits USD 100,000 or selects a beginning date. |
Does an official technical correction, final interpretation, or readable session-law text resolve §72(p)(6)(C)(ii)/(iii)(II)? |
| B012 — Q2: initial failure |
Answered. Excess amount and term/agreement/amortization failures have different deemed-distribution amounts. C036; E001; S002. |
Which requirement, if any, failed at origination. |
Every origination defect produces only the excess—or always the whole amount. |
Which Q&A-4 clause governs each distinct generic defect? |
| B013 — Q2: default/cure timing uncertain |
Answered; application held. The due installment and actually allowed cure govern; the next-quarter end is an outer limit. C037–C039; E002, E008; S002, S021–S022. |
Due dates, payments, allowed cure, program terms, interest. |
Every missed payment receives 90 days or the maximum cure. |
What precedential official guidance, if any, supplements Q&A-10 for successive missed installments? |
| B014 — Q2: deemed amount versus taxable amount |
Answered. The uncured balance includes accrued interest, but §72 basis can alter the includible portion. C038, C040; S002. |
Outstanding amount and investment in contract. |
The reported gross amount must equal taxable income. |
Which §72 allocation provisions apply to the selected generic contribution category? |
| B015 — Q2: deemed distribution versus extinguishment |
Answered as a distinction; actual obligation excluded. Tax treatment does not establish cancellation, payment, release, or collection power. C042–C046; S002, S005. |
All agreement, balance, payment, security, and legal-obligation facts. |
“Taxed” means “forgiven,” or means “collectible.” |
What express effect do Q&As 13, 19, and 21 assign for each specified federal tax purpose? |
| B016 — Q2: later repayment/basis |
Answered. Later cash repayments increase §72(e) basis under Q&A-21; prior deemed loans remain relevant to future-loan limits until repaid. C043–C045; E003; S002. |
Cash repayments, previous inclusion, basis and transition history. |
Tax paid itself creates basis, or later repayment universally reverses default. |
What official rules coordinate Q&A-21 basis with a subsequent actual distribution? |
| B017 — Q2/Q3: separation without proven offset |
Answered. Continuing payments, acceleration, and automatic offset are distinct permitted factual structures in the regulation. C049–C051; E004; S005. |
Governing terms, repayment treatment, accrued-benefit effect. |
Separation alone fixes one taxable event and date. |
How does (g)(3)(i)’s full wording interact with each published Example 1–3 structure? |
| B018 — Q3: actual offset versus QPLO |
Answered. An actual offset must also satisfy sole-cause and immediately-before-compliance predicates to be a QPLO. C052, C056; E006; S004–S005. |
Cause, pre-event compliance, actual offset. |
Every offset following separation is qualified. |
What published explanation defines the relationship between the immediately-before test and later repayment failure? |
| B019 — Q3: severance and timing |
Answered. Establish statutory/regulatory severance, repayment failure, and offset within the severance-to-first-anniversary period. C053–C054; S005–S007. |
Employment/plan-continuity and event timing. |
A new employer always means severance; a timely missed payment makes a late offset qualified. |
Which generic sponsorship or transfer arrangements prevent severance under §1.401(k)-1(d)(2)? |
| B020 — Q3: plan-termination branch |
Answered. Sole termination cause and immediately-before compliance remain necessary; the severance anniversary test is not a universal termination condition. C052, C055; S004–S005. |
Termination and causal predicates. |
The two QPLO causes share every timing condition. |
What official plan-termination guidance is necessary to define termination for this narrow offset question? |
| B021 — Q3: rollover eligibility |
Answered; full qualification held. Actual offset status is followed by eligible-distribution and destination tests. C057–C059, C064; S004–S005, S034–S037. |
Distribution class, basis/Roth character, receiving category, beneficiary status. |
All actual offsets can be rolled over to any retirement arrangement. |
Which precise statutory exclusion or destination condition applies to a specified generic class? |
| B022 — Q3: ordinary versus extended period |
Answered. Ordinary receipt-based 60-day timing differs from the QPLO return-due-date rule; accompanying cash retains its own timing. C060–C062; E005; S004–S005. |
Actual offset tax year, distribution event, return and valid extension. |
The extended period runs from separation or extends all cash distributions. |
How do the published clauses allocate timing between separately characterized distribution components? |
| B023 — Q3: additional relief |
Partial as a complete catalogue. Ordinary waiver, self-certification, financial-institution error, frozen deposits, and §7508A routes are distinguished; full §7508 and current ruling procedure are not analyzed. C065–C070; S010–S011, S030–S033. |
Every relief predicate and current procedural selection. |
Self-certification is an IRS waiver; every late QPLO receives ordinary 60-day waiver relief. |
What complete current official rule governs the particular generic postponement or waiver route? |
| B024 — Q3: statutory versus regulatory transition |
Answered within source bounds. Statutory taxable-year application, 2021 regulatory dates, and 2025 current-codification application differ. C071–C074; S005, S007–S009. |
Historical distribution/loan dates and optional-rule application. |
The current paragraph number or final-rule effective date supplies every historical answer. |
Which version applies under the precise published applicability clause, with dates left unfilled? |
| B025 — Q2/Q5: age/additional tax/exception unknown |
Answered only at threshold framework; full analysis excluded. Deemed distribution can implicate §72(t), but plan type, includible amount, and exceptions matter. C040–C041; S001–S002, S019, S035. |
All age, distribution, exception, and transferred-amount facts. |
A deemed distribution automatically incurs the additional tax. |
Which narrow §72(t) clause is necessary for a specified generic exception, without an individual eligibility decision? |
| B026 — Q4: plan-document rule versus tax rule |
Answered. Enforceable loan terms, program authorization, default provisions, and tax conditions require separate checks. C018, C039, C080; S002, S013, S021. |
All documents and actual operation. |
Tax compliance proves compliance with the plan’s own terms. |
What written-program elements does §2550.408b-1(d) require for the relevant historical period? |
| B027 — Q4: security |
Answered. Adequacy and the benefit-security percentage are distinct from tax loan limits. C022, C082–C083; S013. |
Collateral type/value/liquidity, benefit base, ability to realize security. |
A tax ceiling proves adequate security or authorizes foreclosure. |
How do (f)(1) and (f)(2) apply to a generic additional-collateral structure? |
| B028 — Q4: interest |
Answered. Comparable commercial circumstances govern; renewal requires a fresh compliance assessment. C081, C085; E007; S013. |
All rate, market, collateral, term, and renewal facts. |
A conventional formula or state ceiling is a federal safe harbor. |
What official interpretation refines the comparable-circumstances test without querying a lender or borrower? |
| B029 — Q4: availability and HCE classification |
Answered at public-rule level. Actual administration, reasonably equivalent access, HCE classification, and program restrictions matter. C078–C079, C087; E007; S003, S012–S013, S025. |
Participant classes, program operation, ownership, compensation, elections. |
Active-only access or equal stated percentages necessarily resolves the exemption. |
What official rules govern availability to generic former-employee parties in interest and §414(q) classification? |
| B030 — Q4: fiduciary exemption |
Answered; actual fiduciary decision excluded. The exemption has specified prohibited-transaction scope and does not excuse personal consideration or sham administration. C076–C077, C084–C086; S012–S013, S027. |
Party-in-interest, fiduciary-function, benefit-purpose, and operation facts. |
Satisfaction of the five headline conditions exempts every related act. |
Which identified generic act falls within §406(a), (b)(1), (b)(2), or outside the exemption under (b)(3)? |
| B031 — Q3/Q5: beneficiary unknown |
Answered; application held. Spouse and nonspouse rollover routes differ; a QPLO label does not resolve recipient rights. C059; S004–S005. |
Every beneficiary and alternate-payee premise. |
Any beneficiary may use a personal 60-day rollover. |
What are the exact federal transfer conditions for the generic recipient category? |
| B032 — Q1/Q5: interest deduction unknown |
Answered as a limiting rule. Section 72(p)(3) can deny an otherwise allowable deduction; it does not grant one. C021; S001. |
Key-employee status, security source, other deduction law. |
A qualifying loan automatically produces deductible interest. |
What narrow federal cross-reference defines the relevant security or key-employee category? |
| B033 — Q5: actual tax, contract, state law and other A031 dimensions |
Excluded by parent hold. No actual debt, collection, settlement, discharge, bankruptcy, litigation, policy-loan, EWA, home-equity, guarantee, undrawn-line, sale, future-payment, or fabricated/released-claim determination. |
All such facts and governing nonselected law. |
This component settles any parent claim or remedy. |
No investigation in this pass; a separately authorized generic legal component would be required. |
| B034 — Q1–Q4/currentness: source gaps |
Partial. Later compilation recovery, current §1101, original 2022 disaster act, frozen military definition, and narrower cross-reference questions remain bounded. |
Missing public legal text or complete history, not private records. |
Retrieval failure means no law or no amendment exists. |
Recover the exact missing official text and compare only the affected clauses. |
| B035 — Q5: audit structure |
Answered. The comparison, atomic claims, source register, example index, branch table, and blank worksheet are supplied visibly. |
Every worksheet fact remains unfilled. |
Completion of the research format equals independent review or acceptance. |
A future public-law review may test identified claims against the stated read bounds; no acceptance is made here. |