Most Common Retirement Plans for Small Business Owners The most common retirement plans for the self-employed are IRA, SIMPLE IRA, SEP IRA, individual 401(k), and defined-benefit plans. These small business retirement plans permit contributions ranging from $6,000 to nearly $300,000, per year.
401(k) plan contributions If you are a common-law employee of the S corporation: you can make salary deferral contributions to the 401(k) plan based on your Form W-2 compensation; and. your employer can make matching or nonelective contributions to the plan based on your Form W-2 compensation as a common-law employee.
Total contributions to a participant's account, not counting catch-up contributions for those age 50 and over, cannot exceed $69,000 for 2024 ($66,000 for 2023; $61,000 for 2022; $58,000 for 2021; $57,000 for 2020). Example: Ben, age 51, earned $50,000 in W-2 wages from his S Corporation in 2020.
Now that you are an S Corp, a Solo401K is usually the best retirement plan option. This is because the contribution limits are much higher than other retirement plans (Traditional IRA, Roth IRA).
Single-member S-corporations can establish a solo 401(k) plan, also known as a one-participant 401(k) plan.
Now that you are an S Corp, a Solo401K is usually the best retirement plan option. This is because the contribution limits are much higher than other retirement plans (Traditional IRA, Roth IRA).
There are five main choices for the self-employed or small-business owners: an IRA (traditional or Roth), a Solo 401(k), a SEP IRA, a SIMPLE IRA or a defined benefit plan.