Chapter 4
Simplified Employee Pension (SEP)

Self-employed individuals, as well as other employers, can set up simplified employee pension (SEP) plans. A SEP plan allows an employer to make contributions toward employees' retirement, and, if self-employed, his or her own retirement, without becoming involved in more complex retirement plans.

A self-employed individual is an employee for SEP purposes. He or she is also the employer. Even if the self-employed individual is the only qualifying employee, he or she can have an IRA under a SEP plan (SEP-IRA).

This chapter focuses on the rules affecting employees. For information on the rules affecting employers, see Publication 560.

What Is a SEP?

How Much Can Be Contributed on My Behalf?

Salary Reduction Arrangement

When Can I Withdraw or Use Assets?

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