In our taxable accounts now, I tend to let the dividends accumulate in cash and invest in individual stocks consistently over time rather than dripping them all.
As for draw downs, the vast majority of our funds are
in taxable accounts now, just due to the missus not having a 401k: most of what we invest exceeds the limits of my meager 401k, HSA, and her IRA.
I know market timing is bad, but I am leery of putting too much money in VTSMX
in my taxable account now....
Not exact matches
With this recent purchase my
taxable account holdings
in KMB
now totals 52.2068 shares with a market value of $ 5,194.58.
In a
taxable account it almost certainly a mistake to swap out an equity ETF
now.
But when you take into
account the odds of making two correct timing trades — out
now,
in later, and the cost of the taxes on my
taxable account, the incentives for reducing equity exposure
now look poor.
But when we're dealing with the lower tax rates, we need to invest long enough for $ 15,000 invested tax - free to catch up with $ 25,000
in a
taxable account, and the second number is
now 67 % higher than the first one.
Right
now all my
taxable investments are
in my Vanguard
account.
We put ALL bonuses towards paying off the mortgage, and put money aside for and an emergency fund (
now over $ 50K - $ 20K
in an online savings
account and $ 30K
in our
taxable accounts).
Anon: The TFSA
now allows you to earn a 2 % real return compared to 0.64 % you would have
in a
taxable account using your example.
Now your portfolio is
in balance, but it's not very tax - efficient because you're holding bonds
in a
taxable account.
Those with sizable IRA
accounts might consider a total or partial Roth IRA conversion
now in order to potentially reduce
taxable required minimum distributions at age 70 1/2 and beyond.
Additionally, and this is very important for my strategy starting
now, should I start to max out at 17,000 for the 401k, or is that money better
in a normal
taxable account?
If you plan on making more
taxable income
in retirement than you do right
now, then you should invest outside a tax deferred
account.
A swap - based ETF (without currency hedging) will have some significant advantages
in both RRSP and
taxable accounts but we don't have one available right
now.
And notably,
in a 15 % bracket, a tax - deferred
account with high fees does even worse than taking the tax
now and putting it
in a
taxable account!
There are several different circumstances that will generally happen
in the time between
now and when you want to withdraw the money
in retirement that would be
taxable events if you are not
in a retirement
account:
Now, however, the Bitcoin economy saw two more shocks: first, an IRS ruling saying that Bitcoin is
taxable as property, meaning that Bitcoin users theoretically need to keep track of every transaction they make
in order to calculate their capital gains liability, and finally a report, not yet confirmed by the People's Bank of China but by all
accounts true, that the banking system will be forbidden from interfacing at all with Bitcoin exchanges starting April 15.
For example, if you earned $ 40,000
in one year and contributed $ 5,000 to an RRSP
account, your
taxable income is
now $ 35,000 (as opposed to $ 40,000 before the contribution).
If qualified dividends become taxed at the taxpayer's tax rate
in 2013 instead of zero to 15 percent
now, some individuals may want to rebalance their portfolio to put investments that pay no or lower dividends
in their
taxable accounts and higher dividend investments
in tax - deferred
accounts such as 401ks and IRAs.
I could retire right
now if I had just put the money
in a
taxable account and had access to it...