Even if your company already offers a 401k Plan or a Profit Sharing Plan, you and your employees can save even more for retirement by adding a Cash Balance Plan (CBP). Especially for company owners, a Cash Balance Plan is a great way to save more than a 401k allows.
Currently the maximum annual employee contribution to a 401k Profit Sharing Plan is $69,000 ($76,500 if age 50+). In a CBP the maximum annual savings can exceed $300,000 per year (varies based on age and income).
A contribution to a Cash Balance Plan (CBP) account is a tax deduction that reduces the company’s ordinary income dollar for dollar.
Based on its plan document, a CBP can provide varying levels of benefits for the owners, management team, and employees. With this flexibility, Cash Balance Plans can be used to reward top performers or meet special needs.
Maximum limits often can be funded in a CBP as well as a 401k Profit Sharing plan.
These are just some of the advantages of a Cash Balance Plan. For a more customized discussion of how a Cash Balance Plan could benefit your company, please request a consultation.
If you’re new to Cash Balance Plans (CBPs), use these facts as a starting point to learn more about them. And of course, feel free to request a consultation to discuss these or any other questions you have about these plans:
A Cash Balance Plan is a defined-benefit program in which the employer makes annual contributions to fund promised benefits to employees, based on provisions in the plan document.
When a CBP participant terminates employment with the company, he or she is eligible to receive the vested portion of their benefit.
Assets in a CBP are protected by the law known as ERISA. If a company declares bankruptcy, the funds in its CBP are protected from creditor claims.
