Can you transfer a traditional IRA into a simple IRA?

This chapter is for employees who need information about savings incentive match plans for employees (SIMPLE plans). It explains what a SIMPLE plan is, contributions to a SIMPLE plan, and distributions from a SIMPLE plan.

Under a SIMPLE plan, SIMPLE retirement accounts for participating employees can be set up either as:

• Part of a 401(k) plan, or

• A plan using IRAs (SIMPLE IRA).

This chapter only discusses the SIMPLE plan rules that relate to SIMPLE IRAs. See chapter 3 of Publication 560 for information on any special rules for SIMPLE plans that do not use IRAs.