Employer Contribution Match Limitations

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The IRS sets a limit on how much you can contribute to a retirement plan in a given year. The amount you and your employee can contribute depends on many factors. Please check with your plan provider for details for more details about this one.

To pay the Simple IRA employer contribution to employees, let's set up a retirement plan deduction or a company-match contribution item in QuickBooks. Let me guide you on how: 

1. Go to Payroll, then Employees, and select your employee.
2. From Deductions & contributions, tap Start or Edit.
3. Choose + Add deduction/contribution.
4. Select Retirement Plans in the Deduction/contribution type dropdown.
5. For Type, select the applicable retirement plan. If you need to track a company-only contribution with no employee match, choose Company-only plan.
6. Enter the name of the provider or plan in the Description (appears on paycheck).
7. Complete the remaining fields.
8. If you have a company match, under Company contribution, select the dropdown menu to choose how you want to calculate the amount. Complete the new fields to enter the amount or percent per paycheck and annual maximum.
9. Press Save then Done.

Perform the same procedure to assign it to your employees. When creating paychecks, the employer contribution will automatically show on the workers’ payroll information.

For additional resources, check out the Retirement plan deductions/contributions article. It provides an overview of how to assign the payroll item to employees and steps to remove the deduction.

Please get back if you have other retirement plan deductions or company contribution concerns. I'm still here to help. Take care always, and more power to your institution!