Can someone suggest what is the best venue to put the most retirement investment for a self-empoyed individual who only made about $2,500 in 2006. I know that based upon the earned income of both spouses we can do a Roth IRA for $4,000 each (since spouse made most, but under limit for married), my understanding is there is a SEP, solo 401K, keough, thoughts. We would like to invest all or most of the $2,500 for retirment. Also what is the deadline for 2006?
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posted: Dec. 29, 2006 @ 8:41a
LH2004
Frivolous Member
posted: Dec. 29, 2006 @ 9:54a
Generally speaking, a solo 401(k) is going to be the best by far when you have a very low income. It will let you contribute 100% of self-employment income up to the 401(k) cap ($15,000 for '06, $15,500 for '07). That assumes that you do NOT contribute to another 401(k) or 403(b): the cap applies to all employee contributions from all plans. The other options will generally let you contribute only 25% of income.
A SIMPLE IRA would also work for you, but it has a lower cap (and is somewhat more obscure).
aubie96
Member
posted: Dec. 29, 2006 @ 10:04a
I have a self employed 401(K) with Fidelity and its done well for me.
I use a CPA so I am stating this based on my situation.
My understanding is that the deadline will be depending on your payroll. For eg. I have qtrly payroll and my 4th qtr contributions for 2006 are due in by Jan 15th 2007.
Might be off-topic but another advantage with solo 401(K) is that your company can contribute 25% of your gross income as Profit Sharing. That worked for me real well till now.
cardjuggler
Senior Member
posted: Dec. 29, 2006 @ 12:22p
The Fidelity site has a great comparison showing the advantages of Solo 401K over SEP-IRA. I don't have the URL handy but shouldn't be too hard to find. (I did a SEP-IRA a few years ago. At the time, I didn't find a low-cost 401K option but the Fidelity one appears to be free.) Disclaimer: I don't have an account with Fidelity nor have I compared their info to others, I just came across it in a brief search a few days ago.
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