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Error report: 2025 contribution level for 401(k) is wrong, still shows 2024 limit

Unless I'm reading this wrong, the 2025 limit is still showing the 2024 numbers.  To wit:

 

The 2025 max 401k contribution limit is $23,500 employEE contribution + $46,500 employER contribution for total of $70,000.  Plus, an additional catchup of $7,500 for those age 50-59. 

 

I enter this information and then get told we "can defer a maximum of $30,500 to a 401(k) plan" - not the $31,000 that is allowed in 2025.

 

On a later screen, it says "Maximum allowed to qualified plans: $76,500".  And not the $77,500 that is allowed in 2025 (for those age 50-59).

 

While it let me enter my correct/actual numbers for 2025 (which total $77,500), it is only giving me a deduction of $76,500.

 

Can someone at TurboTax please investigate and address this?  

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RogerD1
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Error report: 2025 contribution level for 401(k) is wrong, still shows 2024 limit

Recent software updates have fixed these issues, so you should be good to go.

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Error report: 2025 contribution level for 401(k) is wrong, still shows 2024 limit

Great, thank you for chiming in here to address it.   On a quick glance through it does seem like this has been fixed now. Thanks again. 

Error report: 2025 contribution level for 401(k) is wrong, still shows 2024 limit

I am having a similar issue with Premier.  In the Contribution Worksheet I entered $23,500 as my 401(k) elective deferrals but I get an error message that says taxpayer elective referrals to an individual 401(k) plan should not be greater than $23,500.  

I get the same error message, even if I input a much smaller number.   

TurboTax says that my software is fully up-to-date.

 

Any thoughts?

 

thanks

 

DawnC
Expert Alumni

Error report: 2025 contribution level for 401(k) is wrong, still shows 2024 limit

You may have an amount already entered somewhere else on your return.   What worksheet are you entering it on?   

Elective deferrals from your W-2 are automatically captured when you enter the W-2 and do not need to be entered again.   If you are self-employed, have you entered your self-employment income?  

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Error report: 2025 contribution level for 401(k) is wrong, still shows 2024 limit

it’s the “Keogh, SEP and SIMPLE contribution, worksheet.”   This is not W2 income, but rather partnership income and my K-1 reports $75,912 on line 13R and is accompanied by an attachment which breaks out that sum as being comprised of $30,912 as profit sharing contributions and $45,000 as 401(k) contributions.  I am between ages 50 and 59.

DawnC
Expert Alumni

Error report: 2025 contribution level for 401(k) is wrong, still shows 2024 limit

That worksheet is for Schedule C filers.   You should delete or clear that worksheet and go back through the K-1 interview.   Where do I enter my K-1?

 

After you enter your Box 13 amount, you will choose Code R and enter the detailed amounts.   Your max elective deferrals 31K ($7500 catch-up) and the remaining 14K as employer match.  

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Error report: 2025 contribution level for 401(k) is wrong, still shows 2024 limit

Thanks. But those numbers add up to only $45,000.  How do I get to $75,912, which is what my K-1 line 13R shows?

 

shouldn’t the employer match at least equal the $30,912 profit sharing contribution?

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