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As we enter the last quarter of the year, now is the time for private foundations to review the current year’s tax planning and year-end strategies.

Our readers know that every industry is impacted by cybercrime. They also know that individuals, as well, are targeted. When these attacks seriously affect the well-being of our school kids and hospital patients ‒ as you will read in this edition ‒ we are all outraged.

As we move passed the six-month mark of being immersed in the global COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to reflect and appreciate where we have been to allow us to strategize and plan for where we need to go next.

In a world dramatically reshaped by the Pandemic, one constant remains: cybercrime motivation. While the number of breaches dropped during the first half of 2020, my prediction is that it will return to an upward shift.

The Department of Labor (DOL) has recently published Interim Final Regulations (Regulations) pursuant to changes enacted by the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (SECURE Act) which require plan administrators of defined plans [e.g., 401(k) and 403(b)] to express a participant’s current account balance both as a single life annuity and a qualified joint and survivor annuity stream on their pension benefit statements at least once every 12 months.