Here’s the email:
“We’re writing to inform you of a 401k compliance deadline on July 31st, 2019. IRS Form 5500-EZ is due by the end of next month for all Solo 401k plans that had $250,000 or more in plan assets on December 31st, 2018. If your plan had less than $250,000 in assets or if you just created your new plan in 2019, you do not need to file form 5500-EZ this year.
Again, Form 5500-EZ is due if your plan was valued at or above $250,000 in 2018. This form is also due if 2018 was your last plan year before terminating.
Form 5500-EZ is a very simple informational return and there are no taxes due in connection with the form. If you need to file this form and would like more information about the filing, please see the attached guide. Here is a link to the form on the IRS website: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f5500ez.pdf
Box 1 7588
Box 2a 3
Box 5 7585
Box 7 G
but when I enter it into freetaxusa it tells me “You entered $3 as the amount of taxable pension distribution in Box 2a of the Retirement Income (Form 1099-R) screen. The taxable pension distribution in Box 2a of the Retirement Income (Form 1099-R) screen should not include the part of your distribution that was converted to a Roth IRA. Otherwise the taxable pension amount from the Roth IRA conversion will be double counted as income. Please go back to the Retirement Income (Form 1099-R) screen and reduce the amount in Box 2a by the amount converted from your qualified retirement plan to a Roth IRA.”
I’m confused on this because the money was sitting in the after tax account long enough to generate $3 and I think I’ve filled this out just like others have but for some reason FreetaxUSA doesn’t like this. Has anyone else had this issue?
1. First, go to the Income tab and select the Retirement Income option.
2. Then on that screen, click to Edit your 1099-R that is in question.
3. Then on the Retirement Income (Form 1099-R) screen change your taxable amount on the 1099-R entry in Box 2a to be ZERO ($0) and report the remainder of your 1099-R as is was reported to you. Don’t worry we will report that $3 of earnings elsewhere to show it as taxable.
4. Then click to Save and Continue.
5. On the next screen (Roth Conversion) you would still answer YES as you already have to both questions and enter the amount of your distribution from Box 1 of your 1099-R (currently you show $7,588) as you already have in the field. Then Save and Continue.
6. The next screen should be the After-Tax Roth Conversion screen. You will enter the amount of your “basis” in the Roth Conversion in this screen. In your case, you will need to adjust the suggested amount in bold to be less the $3 of earnings (which would be probably $7,585). Then click to Save and Continue.
NEXT there will be a screen (Retirement Income Information Alerts (Form 1099-R)) with a Yellow Alert. That yellow alert is correct and should state that your only taxable income on that rollover will be the $3 of earnings.
You can just Continue through that alert screen and proceed with the remainder of your return. Then if/when you finish your Federal entries and get to the Summary tab you can pull up and review a copy of your return. On it you should then see for Line 4c and 4d that your Rolled over amount is the amount from Box 1 of your 1099-R ($7,588 if that was the correct amount on the form) and the taxable amount of only $3 for the earnings.
This from a Bogleheads post:
https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=301627#p4978058
“There are two Form 5500-EZ filing requirements:
When a one-participant 401k plan balance (including all accounts) exceeds $250K on the last day of the businesses year. It must file a Form 5500-EZ by the last day of the 7th month following the last day of the businesses year. For a calendar year business, those dates are 12/31 and 7/31 respectively.
When a one-participant 401k plan is terminated. The plan sponsor must file a final Form 5500-EZ on the last day of the 7th month following the plan termination. This is true regardless, even if the plan has never had a plan balance > $250K.
Unfortunately, @smileartist is almost 60 days late with filing their final For 5500-EZ.
Two silver linings for @smileartist:
The increase to $250/day for late filing only applies to returns required to be filed after 12/31/19. Since their filing deadline was 11/30/19, 60 days late would only be 60 * $25 = $1,500 and no $15,000.
However, if the Form 5500-EZ late-filers penalty relief program is still the same, then the cost would only be $500.
Also can anyone answer SouthernDoc’s question:
“One final question…
If you establish a plan’s own EIN, for line 2b you still list the employer’s/sole proprietor’s EIN and not the plan EIN, correct? As in, there is no section on the 5500-EZ to report the plan’s own EIN.”
W2- $19,000 employee pre tax contribution
1099 net income: $41,870.92
25% pretax PSP $8,262
Post tax non roth $24,786
I am ready to contibute to post tax non roth, and I would like to do IRR to solo401k ASAP after. I am uncertain of the mechnics on how to do this at fidelity. I know I can write a check to deposit to the after tax non roth account, but how do I go about rolling it over. I don’t see online options. Do people call in? Thanks for any advice.
https://thefinancebuff.com/after-tax-contributions-in-solo-401k.html#comment-25310
saildawg says
FEBRUARY 7, 2020 AT 10:16 AM
Harry,
Thank you so much for the articles and calculator. I do not quite understand all the nuances, but the calculator has given me the confidence to go forward. In playing with the numbers it seems that on 50k 1099 earnings total contributions are actually larger if I use 0% PSP vs 25% (note 19k employee contribution from W2 with wages $250,000)
For 0% I get $0 PSP + 49,330 after tax non roth = 49,330 total
For 25% I get 9,866 in PSP + 29,598 in after tax non roth =39,464 total
I am going to use 25% as I am in a high marginal tax bracket so PSP is more valuable, but was hoping to understand why there is a difference. Thanks for everything.
Harry Sit says
FEBRUARY 8, 2020 AT 2:18 PM
From the businesss point of view, after it makes the profit sharing contribution, the rest is paid to the owner as compensation. The rule says the total contribution of all types (elective deferral + profit sharing + after-tax) cant exceed the compensation. Because profit sharing is on both sides of the equation, $1 in profit sharing reduces after-tax contribution by $2.
In 2018, we established an i401k with DiscountSolo401k and use Schwab for our CRA’s. We’re overdue for our first conversion of after-tax funds and I’m hoping for a quick thumbs up/down on my first conversion.
We have funds segregated into pre-tax elective, pre-tax profit sharing, post-tax (not roth) CRA’s.
We have reason to want to convert (in-kind transfer) all of the funds/positions at once, as follows:
* Both Pre-Tax accounts to Rollover IRA at Schwab.
* Post-Tax to Roth IRA at Schwab.
My wife, the owner of the business and accounts, only has Roth IRA’s otherwise. There are no existing TIRA’s/SIMPLE’s/SEP’s in her name though there are in mine.
My interpretation is that because all funds are rolled over from the i401k at once to similarly taxed accounts, there is no ambiguity of tax treatment.
To execute this, we will document the request from my wife to the 401k trust. Acting on behalf of the trust, she will issue a Letter of Authorization requesteing Schwab to transfer the funds (e.g. CRA to Rollover IRA). Again acting be behalf of the trust, she will also issue 3 1099-R’s reflecting the rollover to herself and the IRS. 2 of the 1099-R’s will reflect no tax liability for the pre-tax funds moving to Rollover IRAs. The 3rd 1099-R will reflect a few dollars of tax liability from interest accrued on the after-tax funds.
In the near future, we will be rolling these funds from Roth and Rollover IRA’s to Merrill Edge for unrelated reasons. We may, in the future, roll just the Rollover IRA funds back into the i401k Pre-Tax CRA (e.g. loan capabilities, standard backdoor roth ira positioning). That may be a year out. In the meantime, we’ll slowly build the i401k account back up with new 2019 and 2020 funds.
All good?
Thanks! Excited and a little nervous about getting this all just right!
I got side tracked by some other issues though, which I may or may not detail here later, so haven’t started the process just yet, which I do plan to detail here how it goes.
I can just do a lump sum, once or twice a year.
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