Unless they come from certain public pension funds,
pension payments generally are taxable at the time that they're issued.
Not exact matches
The chances that you'll be able to do better than the monthly
payments offered by your employer are low — a 2015 General Accounting Office on
pensions and lump sums found that the payouts on company
pensions are
generally much more generous than those offered by private insurers — but it doesn't hurt to check.
«Commutation» is a term which
generally means the process of converting a
pension or annuity into a lump sum
payment.
If you're paying super benefits from a TRIS to a member who is aged 60 or over, there is
generally no need to withhold tax as the
pension payments will
generally be received tax - free.
The first would be to leave the
pension intact and draw a monthly
payment at some point in the future (
generally after age 55).
However, the regular nature of the
payment means that people
generally opt to use annuities as
pensions when they have stopped working and there is no regular salary income.