Epic Real Estate Investing - How to Participate in Multiple Retirement Accounts | 371

Episode Date: April 10, 2018

Today on Tax Hacker Tuesday with Epic Real Estate, Tim Berry explains how to participate in multiple retirement accounts. Listen now to learn how to use multiple retirement accounts at once, which contribution limits you need to know about, and how to save for retirement in the smartest and most fruitful way possible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's time. for Tax Hacker Tuesday. Okay, so you set up a self-directed 401K. You've got your side business, and it's whatever, consulting, it's an eBay business, it's real estate. So you set up a 401K plan, your self-directed 401K plan, on this side business over here. And then you're still also working for the man. You're working for IBM or whoever over here, and you have a retirement plan with IBM as well.

So you have this retirement plan with IBM. you have your own self-directed 401 plan. Are you allowed to participate and contribute to both plans? I got great news for you. The answer is yes. You are allowed to participate in both plans. But there's going to be certain limitations here. And by the way, I'm going to refer you over to our video on contribution limits for your 401k plan.

Because I'm going to start using some language that's taken from that video. In particular, with these retirement plans, the two retirement plans, the limit you're going to have is this. You're only allowed to make total contributions to the Coda account, to what is normally referred to as the 401k account, to a maximum of 17,500 for both plans. So if you put 5,000 in your plan for IBM and you put in 12,000 for your personal plan, that works. But if you put in 15,000 for the IBM plan and 15,000 for your personal plan, that's not going to work.

You're going to exceed the 401k limits. But remember, that's just one bucket of your retirement plan. There's a number of other buckets that you're allowed to make contributions to. So let's say that you only had profit-sharing contributions inside your IBM plan. No big deal. And let's say that those contributions worth $50,000 to the IBM plan. No big deal. If you earned enough income on your sole proprietorship,

you can have your sole proprietorship, your side business, make contributions of $50,000 as well to the profit-sharing bucket. So answer to the simple question, can you contribute and participate in more than one retirement plan? Absolutely, you can. Just know the contribution limits can get a little bit confusing. And so just as per normal, if you have any questions on that and how it applies to your situation, go ahead and give us a call or send us an email. We'll be more than happy to help you out.

Thank you so much. That's it for today, as we dream of a tax system that works just for you. But until then, you have Tim Berry. See you next Tuesday for another episode of Tax Hacker Tuesday. This podcast is a part of the C-suite Radio Network. For more top business podcasts, visit c-sweetradio.com.