Navigating Self-Employment Taxes and Retirement Savings

Self-employed people are able to contribute a ridiculous amount of money to their special self-employment retirement accounts. Today, we're going to dig into:

• Everything you need to know about Solo 401(k)s and SEP IRAs

• Where your self-employment tax even comes from

• How to decide what's better for you – Solo 401(k) or SEP IRA – depending on how much money you make and whether or not you have a full-time job, too

• The only way to avoid paying the 15.3% self-employment tax

• How you could save more than $10,000 in taxes

• The easy calculation for figuring out how much you're allowed to contribute to a SEP IRA or Solo 401(k)

• My new strategy for ditching the Backdoor Roth IRA and getting Roth exposure elsewhere, allowing me to use a big, fat SEP IRA

RESOURCES MENTIONED

• You can open a SEP IRA with Betterment today

• The fancy IRS calculator for determining what you're allowed to contribute (but I'd just use the easy formula I mentioned in the episode!)

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