# How Employers Can Contribute $2,500 To Trump Accounts

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Podcast: [The College Investor Audio Show](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-college-investor-audio-show-414113)
Published: 2026-07-20T10:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://thecollegeinvestor.com/83727/how-employers-can-contribute-2500-to-trump-accounts/
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## Resource

Employer contributions to Trump Accounts become legal on July 4, 2026 — one year to the day after the One Big Beautiful Bill Act created the new children's savings accounts. For small business owners, the launch opens a question worth real money: can your business fund your own kids' accounts with pre-tax dollars? The answer appears to be yes for many owners, but the mechanics matter. The tax break runs through new Internal Revenue Code Section 128 , which lets an employer contribute up to $2,500 per year to the Trump Account of an employee or an employee's dependent without the amount counting as taxable income to the employee. For a solopreneur who is also an employee of their own company, that can mean a business deduction on one side and no income tax on the other — a combination that is hard to find elsewhere in the code. But the provision comes with paperwork requirements, contribution caps, and several unresolved questions the IRS has not yet answered. Here is what the rules require, where the opportunity sits for owner-operators, and the mistakes that could undo the benefit.

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