Small Business Retirement Accounts
Work for yourself? Own a small business? There are specialized accounts to help you save for retirement.
Whether you work for yourself or have a small business with just a few employees, you can maximize your retirement savings and tax advantages with a small-business retirement plan. The three plans listed below are a good place to start. You may want to talk to a tax advisor for help in choosing the plan that’s right for you and your business.
An Individual 401(k) is an easy-to-administer, low-cost retirement plan designed for self-employed individuals and owner-only businesses who want to make substantial contributions toward their retirement. It has many of the same benefits as a traditional 401(k), but it’s a smaller plan, requiring less administration. And, as the owner of your Individual 401(k), you direct how the contributions are invested.
The easiest plan to administer, a SEP-IRA allows you to make sizable contributions for yourself and any eligible employees you may have. And you have the flexibility to vary contributions from year to year or even skip contributions altogether in any year.
A SIMPLE IRA provides an easy and economical way to establish a retirement program for you and up to 100 employees. With a SIMPLE IRA, you establish the plan for your business. Eligible employees may fund their own retirement accounts through salary deferral contributions. And, as the employer, you make an additional contribution to eligible employee accounts.