{"id":18116,"date":"2011-03-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/6-things-know-savers-credit\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T22:02:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T22:02:33","slug":"6-things-know-savers-credit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/6-things-know-savers-credit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Things you Should Know about Savers Credit"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you're reading this, something about your tax situation has you worried. That's fair \u2014 the IRS is intimidating until you know how the rules actually work. I'm Darrin Mish, a Tampa tax attorney. I've handled cases like yours for 32 years. Let me walk you through it.<\/p>\n

Did you know that if you contribute towards your employer\u2019s retirement plan or to an individual retirement arrangement, you can receive a tax credit? \u00a0The tax credit is called the Retirement Savings Contributions Credit or popularly known as Savers Credit for short. \u00a0Click here to read or watch more IRS Help resources.<\/a><\/div>\n
Here are 6 things you should know about the Savers Credit:<\/div>\n
1. The eligibility is for those who are single, married but filing taxes jointly or widow\/widower. \u00a0The income limit for widow or widower is $27,750, head of household is $41,625 and married filing jointly is $55,500.<\/div>\n
2. Your date of birth must not be later than January 2, 1992 and you must not have been a full-time student during the calendar year or be listed as a dependent in another taxpayer\u2019s claims.<\/div>\n
3. If you contribute towards a 401(k), another qualified IRA or retirement plan, you may still claim a credit of $1,000 or $2,000 if filing jointly. \u00a0The credit amount is a percentage of your contributions, which depends on your income (the highest percentage is for those with the lowest income).<\/div>\n
4. To calculate the amount of credit, you generally have to take the distributions you received from your retirement plan and subtract it from the contributions you have made. \u00a0This needs to be done for the distributions received in the two years before the year the credit is claimed, the year the credit is claimed, and the period after the end of the credit year but before the due date \u2013 including extensions \u2013 for filing the return for the credit year.<\/div>\n
5. Your Saving Credit will be granted in addition to other tax benefits that come from your retirement contributions. \u00a0For example, you may still deduct all or part of your contributions to a traditional IRA. \u00a0Contributions to a regular 401(k) plan are not subject to income tax until withdrawn from the plan.<\/div>\n
6. The form you would need to use to claim the Savers Credit is Form 8880, Credit for Qualified Retirement Savings Contributions.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you're reading this, something about your tax situation has you worried. That's fair \u2014 the IRS is intimidating until you know how the rules actually work. I'm Darrin Mish, a Tampa tax attorney. I've handled cases like yours for 32 years. Let me walk you through it. Did you know that if you contribute […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs-help"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21941,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18116\/revisions\/21941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}