- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
Retirement tax questions
If neither participates in or owns any part of the other's business, the attribution rules that would otherwise result in these businesses being treated as a controlled group that would have to be treated as a single employer for the purpose of a retirement plan do not apply. Each can set up a separate SEP plan (and, cannot set up a combined SEP plan).
The maximum contribution is 25% of wages paid (but not to exceed the maximum limit for the year, $57,000 for 2020 which would require at least $228,000 of wages paid). Your pass-through income is not wages and does not factor into the calculation of your permissible SEP contribution (although the SEP contribution made by your S corp and deducted on the S corp's tax return does reduce the pass-through income). Catch-up contributions are not permitted in a SEP plan. SEP contributions are employer contributions, not employee contributions.