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I have a client who is the owner of a business - who also provides consulting service as a separate company to said business.  He is owner of both businesses.

 

Business number 1 is set up as a Safe Harbor Non-Elective plan with 10 employees.

The client wants to contribute his max deferral (comp $350k) of $23,500.00 plus receive his 3% NE SH of $ 10,500.00.  So for business 1 - he would have contributed (or received from the company a total of $34,000.00.

In business 2 - the client is the only employee - he wants to set up an After Tax contribution in the amount of $36,000.00 so he can max his total contributions at $70,000.00 for the year.

He also earns a separate $350k in this business.

 

So...After Tax contributions are tested in the ACP test of business 2 - but since the plans do not have to be aggregated for ACP Testing - what is to stop him from doing this?  It seems like he could just skip providing any Employer Contributions to business 1 (outside of the SH NE 3%) without failing any testing.

 

What am I failing to see?

 

Thanks!

Posted
1 hour ago, Nic Pospiech said:

but since the plans do not have to be aggregated for ACP Testing

This is true, but since the two companies are an affiliated service group, they must be considered a single employer for coverage testing. The NHCEs in Business 1 are not benefiting in the match/after-tax portion of the plan so the NHCE coverage ratio is zero and therefore the coverage test will fail.

Free advice is worth what you paid for it. Do not rely on the information provided in this post for any purpose, including (but not limited to): tax planning, compliance with ERISA or the IRC, investing or other forms of fortune-telling, bird identification, relationship advice, or spiritual guidance.

Corey B. Zeller, MSEA, CPC, QPA, QKA
Preferred Pension Planning Corp.
corey@pppc.co

Posted

Yes...that is it.  Thanks all!  We don't deal with a ton of After Tax plans....so I knew that this was to simple...but just wasn't thinking the process through.  

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