https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/retirement/discussion/my-only-wages-are-from-a-non-qualified-deferred-compensation-plan-may-i-make-a-traditional-ira/01/174476#M14464 <P>Pub 590-A informs that non-qualified deferred income is not included in compensation for determining the IRA contribution limit. So, it is possible that this is a bug in TurboTax, unless something has changed in the 2018 tax law.</P> Sat, 01 Jun 2019 15:30:35 GMT lngirard 2019-06-01T15:30:35Z https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/retirement/discussion/my-only-wages-are-from-a-non-qualified-deferred-compensation-plan-may-i-make-a-traditional-ira/01/174476#M14464 <P>Pub 590-A informs that non-qualified deferred income is not included in compensation for determining the IRA contribution limit. So, it is possible that this is a bug in TurboTax, unless something has changed in the 2018 tax law.</P> Sat, 01 Jun 2019 15:30:35 GMT https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/retirement/discussion/my-only-wages-are-from-a-non-qualified-deferred-compensation-plan-may-i-make-a-traditional-ira/01/174476#M14464 lngirard 2019-06-01T15:30:35Z https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/retirement/discussion/no-if-your-only-income-is-from-a-non-qualified-deferred/01/174485#M14466 <P>No, if your only income is from a non-qualified deferred compensation plan, you are not eligible to make traditional IRA contributions.&nbsp; See the following IRS link for&nbsp;<A rel="nofollow" href="https://www.irs.gov/publications/p590a#en_US_2018_publink1000230366" target="_blank">What Isn’t Compensation?</A></P> Sat, 01 Jun 2019 15:30:36 GMT https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/retirement/discussion/no-if-your-only-income-is-from-a-non-qualified-deferred/01/174485#M14466 JulieR 2019-06-01T15:30:36Z