dmertz
Level 15

Retirement tax questions

If this self-employment income is your only compensation, you've made an excess contribution.  The amount of self-employment income available to support any type of IRA contribution is net earnings from self-employment.  Net earnings are net profit minus the deductible portion of self-employment taxes.

 

With regard to the modified AGI limit for determining eligibility to make a Roth IRA contribution, AGI includes only net profit.

 

The business's gross income is irrelevant with regard to this.