
Simplified Employee Pension (SEP)
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A simplified employee pension (SEP) is a written plan that allows employers to make retirement contributions to individual retirement arrangements (called SEP-IRAs) set up for each eligible plan participant. These contributions may be deducted from the business's income and are generally excluded from the employee's income (see "Note" below). In addition, eligible employees can make IRA contributions to their existing SEP-IRA accounts. Although SEP-IRAs can accept higher annual contributions than traditional IRAs, SEP-IRAs are subject to most of the procedures and federal income tax rules that apply to traditional IRAs.
