Employee Retirement Plans: Tax Advantages and Other Benefits

Clearly, your employees are winners when you sponsor a retirement plan. But there are advantages for you, too.

A few decades ago, many employees could look forward to comfortable retirements. Interest rates on savings vehicles were high. Pensions were well-funded. The economy hummed along.

Today's retirement scenarios for a good portion of the population are not as rosy. Rates on savings accounts, CDs, government bonds and other interest-bearing accounts are dismal. Pension funds are struggling. And while there are positive signs of recovery, the U.S. economy has just been through the ringer.  [MORE] . . .