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SEP contributions are employer contributions. The employer deducts the contribution on your employer's tax return. You do not deduct it on your individual tax return .
Did you make a regular personal IRA contribution independent of the SEP contribution? (Normally one does not make regular personal contributions to the same SEP-IRA to which employers make SEP contributions. Some SEP-IRA custodians don't allow it and even if they do, special care must be taken so that the custodian records it as a regular personal IRA contribution and not a SEP contribution.)
This contribution is buy the employee (me). The SEP IRA manager is supposed to submit Form 5498 to the Federal Government. I just need to know how to record the employee contribution in Turbo Tax.
Since it is not reported on your W-2, any contributions you made are not SEP contributions. You are not permitted to make SEP contributions. Only your employer is permitted to make SEP contributions.
As I suggested as a possibility, perhaps you made a regular personal IRA contribution, not a SEP contribution, but happened to make it to the same SEP-IRA to which your employer makes SEP contributions. If that's the case, it's reported just like any regular personal traditional IRA contribution under Deductions & Credits -> Retirement and Investments -> Traditional and Roth IRA Contributions. These contributions would be reported in box 1 of the Form 5498. The only amounts reported in box 8 of the Form 5498 as SEP contributions are those made by your employer.
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NO! This SEP Ira account was set up in the 1990's when I had evedence of being self employed but I made a constribution this year passed and I need to report as to much. How can I get form C, F and the other forms to report this contribution?! I made the contribution to my SEP IRA and now I need to report as to much to the IRS!
You cannot make a SEP contribution if you are not an employer ... remove the excess contributions + earnings ASAP.
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