dmertz
Level 15

Retirement tax questions

Your contributions are limited to net earnings from self employment.  Net earnings are net profit minus the deductible portion of self-employment taxes.  On $34,754 of net profit, the deductible portion of SE taxes is $2,456, leaving $32,298 as the amount of your net earnings.  After making $30,500 in employee Roth 401(k) contributions, that leaves only $1,798 available to make the employer contribution.