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Matt Gaylor's avatar

The employer contribution will be a deduction, whether it goes to Roth or pre-tax, and then taxable to the employee. Is there a prohibition for single owners to contribute to the Roth for pass through entity - essentially giving a net zero effect on taxes for the contribution?

Daniel Julson's avatar

How does this pertain to 401(k)’s, is this just for SIMPLE/SEP?

Thomas A. Gorczynski's avatar

Look at the Employer Roth Contributions section; it is half-way down.

Daniel Julson's avatar

Missed that, clear as day. Thank you.

vonda henry's avatar

Tom can you talk about the backdoor Roth and its guidelines.

Thomas A. Gorczynski's avatar

I am planning to write an article on that in a future edition.

Barry Dreayer's avatar

Related to this topic is the relatively unknown maximum that an employee can contribute to his or her SIMPLE IRA (whether or not treated as a Roth) if the employer has less than 25 employees. Automatically the $16,000/$19,500 limits can be increased by 10% for 2024. I have asked multiple financial advisors and CPA colleagues and they were not familiar with this SECURE 2.0 provision. (I wasn't aware until last week, after reading an article...in fact I increased my own SIMPLE contribution!)

Thomas A. Gorczynski's avatar

Yes, this was in SECURE 2.0. I know I covered it previously in my SECURE 2.0 classes and 2023 update. There were lots of small and large changes in that legislation.