what is an sep
SEP Plan FAQs. A Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) plan provides business owners with a simplified method to contribute toward their employeesâ retirement as well as their own retirement savings. Contributions are made to an Individual Retirement Account or Annuity (IRA) set up for each plan participant (a SEP-IRA). A SEP-IRA account is a traditional IRA and follows the same investment, distribution, and rollover rules as traditional IRAs. See the IRA FAQs. See also Publication 560, Publication 590-A and Publication 590-B for detailed information on SEP plans and SEP-IRAs.