Bredhoff & Kaiser, P.L.L.C. regularly represents its employee benefit plan clients before the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Labor, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and state inspector general offices. The firm maintains contacts with policymaking and enforcement officials in these agencies, and represents clients both formally and informally in a wide range of matters including discussions of policy, investigations of specific factual circumstances, and responses to administrative subpoenas and formal agency actions. The firm regularly advises and represents clients with respect to the scope and consequences of the reporting and disclosure and prohibited transaction rules found in ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code. The firm also represents employee plans seeking exemption from, or modification of, various federal tax and labor law requirements. The firm addresses unrelated business income tax issues and other matters concerning tax-exempt organizations. And the firm is in regular contact with staff at federal regulatory agencies and Congress in order to keep fully informed as to current and prospective developments in the pension and welfare benefit areas.
The firm also advocates benefits policy issues on behalf of its clients before federal agencies and Congress. The firm regularly submits comments to the agencies and testimony to Congress regarding benefits policy. For example, the firm recently submitted testimony to the House Committee on Education and Labor regarding the preservation of retiree health care benefits on behalf of the National Education Association. And the firm has helped both the American Federation of Musicians and the NEA hone their legislative and grass roots communication strategies regarding the major pension reform legislation pending before Congress in 2004 through 2006. |
