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Simplified Employee Plan (SEP)

SEP IRA stands for Simplified Employee Pension IRA. It’s a tax-deferred retirement plan for small business owners, where the employer makes deductible contributions to their own IRA as well as deductible contributions to IRAs for eligible employees.

Key Benefits of a Simplified Employee Plan:

  • Minimal paperwork and reporting.
  • Employers can change their annual contributions.
  • Deductible employer contributions are made directly to employees’ IRAs.
  • All contributions must be 100% immediately vested.


Who Can Establish:

  • Self-employed Persons
  • Partnerships
  • S-corporations
  • C-corporations
  • Non-profit Groups


Annual Contributions:

  • Who contributes: employer
  • Up to 25% of an employee’s eligible compensation or $49,000, whichever is less.
  • Employees who earn $245,000 or more are not eligible.

Simplified Employee Plan (SEP) Candidates:

  • Smaller employers that would like a plan that is easy to communicate and inexpensive to operate.
  • Smaller Employers that want to be solely responsible in funding the employee retirement plan thereby getting a larger business tax deduction.
  • Employers that may not be able to afford the costs of maintaining a Profit Sharing or 401(k).
  • Employers who are looking for the maximum eligibility requirements to be able to exclude certain employees.


Contact a LPL Investment Consultant to go over your options for retirement.


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