Not exact matches
And now that our careers
are going, we
're looking at maxing out two traditional 401Ks and two Roth IRAs this year, and we see the Roth IRA portion as a small hedge against rising future
tax rates (or what I think
is a bit more likely to happen —
tax brackets that don't keep pace with inflation, so keep sucking
in more and more
people to
higher brackets).
This
is the phenomenon by which
people are pushed into
higher income
tax brackets or have reduced value from credits or deductions due to inflation, instead of any increase
in real income.
Muni funds
are usually traded by
people with
in the
higher tax bracket because these funds
are except from federal
taxes... Sometimes even escape state
taxes as well.
An upwardly mobile
person making $ 100K today at a young age (
in the 25 %
bracket) will most likely
be a
higher tax bracket when they retire assuming they max out their retirement savings vehicles.
As another interesting point —
people should remember that a penny saved could
be the equivalent of two pennies earned if you
are amongst those who
are in the
highest tax bracket.
Add
in the fact that
higher income
people usually derive a larger portion of their income from investments (which tend to have associated
tax benefits), and it
's easy to see how the percentage paid out
in taxes is almost the same for all income
brackets over $ 40,000, as MLR notes.
If a
person has additional money to set aside for retirement, an annuity's
tax - free growth can
be beneficial, especially if the investor
is in a
high - income
tax bracket.
The K900 WILL SIT ON DEALER LOTS AND
IN SHOWROOMS FOR QUITE SOME TIME before any takers actually lease one.The Equus, as nice a car it it is, sits in showrooms for a year or more... having sold HYUNDAI for 15 years and having gone thru all of their growth with them, they are a fine automobile and company as is KIA since the Hyundai purchase of them about a decade ago.I do feel that delving into this high end luxury car arena is a mistake for both Hyundai and Kia.They should have spent money and added a power passenger seat to the Sonata and they would have sold twice as many as they did, and that's no joke.There are not enough people in that tax bracket that will spend 60 + grand on any KIA.The dealership I was at for 15 years selling Hyundai recently gave up the EQUUS LINE FOR LACK OF SALES.I fear that eventually KIA dealers will do the same with the K9
IN SHOWROOMS FOR QUITE SOME TIME before any takers actually lease one.The Equus, as nice a car it it
is, sits
in showrooms for a year or more... having sold HYUNDAI for 15 years and having gone thru all of their growth with them, they are a fine automobile and company as is KIA since the Hyundai purchase of them about a decade ago.I do feel that delving into this high end luxury car arena is a mistake for both Hyundai and Kia.They should have spent money and added a power passenger seat to the Sonata and they would have sold twice as many as they did, and that's no joke.There are not enough people in that tax bracket that will spend 60 + grand on any KIA.The dealership I was at for 15 years selling Hyundai recently gave up the EQUUS LINE FOR LACK OF SALES.I fear that eventually KIA dealers will do the same with the K9
in showrooms for a year or more... having sold HYUNDAI for 15 years and having gone thru all of their growth with them, they
are a fine automobile and company as
is KIA since the Hyundai purchase of them about a decade ago.I do feel that delving into this
high end luxury car arena
is a mistake for both Hyundai and Kia.They should have spent money and added a power passenger seat to the Sonata and they would have sold twice as many as they did, and that
's no joke.There
are not enough
people in that tax bracket that will spend 60 + grand on any KIA.The dealership I was at for 15 years selling Hyundai recently gave up the EQUUS LINE FOR LACK OF SALES.I fear that eventually KIA dealers will do the same with the K9
in that
tax bracket that will spend 60 + grand on any KIA.The dealership I
was at for 15 years selling Hyundai recently gave up the EQUUS LINE FOR LACK OF SALES.I fear that eventually KIA dealers will do the same with the K900
Tax brackets for married
people are not double those of singles, so
higher brackets kick
in sooner when filing jointly.
According to this article at TaxTips.ca,
in that top
tax bracket the same
person would pay just 26.76 % on capital gains, although I
was shocked to learn that the rate on eligible Canadian dividends
is a rather stiff 39.34 % (
in the
highest tax bracket).
For
people in the
higher tax brackets, capital gains rates
are likely to
be higher in the near future.
The reason
is, Iowa has just one
tax bracket regardless of filing status, so two
people filing a joint return will
be taxed on their combined incomes at a
high point
in Iowa's highly progressive
tax bracket.
Rate shifting
is most important for
people who
are in the 22 %
bracket or
higher while they
are working, but will
be in the 12 %
tax bracket when they retire.
The upshot of all this
is that
people who expect to
be in the 25 %
bracket or
higher during their retirement years should strongly consider a Roth conversion even if the rate of
tax on the conversion
is as many as ten percentage points
higher, provided they can pay the conversion
tax with money that would otherwise remain
in a taxable investment account and their investment time horizon
is a long one.
In both instances, people likely to be in high tax brackets after retirement may prefer to hold a high proportion of municipal bonds, which are generally exempt from federal tax and sometimes from state and local taxes as wel
In both instances,
people likely to
be in high tax brackets after retirement may prefer to hold a high proportion of municipal bonds, which are generally exempt from federal tax and sometimes from state and local taxes as wel
in high tax brackets after retirement may prefer to hold a
high proportion of municipal bonds, which
are generally exempt from federal
tax and sometimes from state and local
taxes as well.
AC: And
in some cases, we see
people in higher bracket markets because they have Social Security, maybe they have pensions, and maybe they did a good job saving, and now their required minimum distributions push them into
higher brackets, and those
are folks that desperately would prefer or would have liked to have some
tax diversification.
To
be clear, the $ 1,000
in additional credit for each child will
be more than the benefit from the personal exemption they would have
been entitled to for many taxpayers, especially for middle - income households
in the lower
tax brackets and
people whose incomes
were formerly too
high to use the credit at all.
9:25 «If you have the discipline to save that
tax savings and you
're in a
higher tax bracket, by all means, go for the pre-
tax and get that deduction... take that $ 2500 and save it — put it
in a Roth IRA as a contribution; that would
be the best [case scenario]...
people forget about this because they just spend it.»
But wealthy
people in a
high tax bracket should seek expert planning advice to see if there might
be a better strategy.
«Sometimes I encourage
people to bank capital losses, even if they have capital gains, because they
're going to
be in a
higher tax bracket in the future,» says Jason Heath, a fee - only certified financial planner and income
tax professional at Objective Financial Partners
in Toronto.
Many
people argue
in favor of the Roth because they assume they'll
be in a
higher tax bracket in retirement than they
're in right now.
And that
was pretty handy, because
people could do a Roth conversion, just kind of thinking, «well maybe $ 50,000
is the right amount,» and then the following year they do their return and they realize, «whoa, $ 50,000, put me
in too
high of a
tax bracket, I really should have only done about $ 20,000.»
Annuity arbitrage works best for
people who
are in a
high income
tax bracket, and with a possible estate -
tax problem.
People in low
tax brackets who expect to later
be in higher brackets in retirement should clearly preference Roth IRAs to standard IRAs, and similarly there
is a value judgment to
be made about whether a 401k makes sense (even with the compounding) if you can only choose a lousy overpriced plan (as most of them
are) AND believe your
tax rate will increase
in retirement.
Elimination of the deduction will lead to
higher revenues overall for the government because the
person who deduced the alimony
was likely
in a
higher tax bracket than the spouse declaring the alimony as income.
The idea
is that most
people will make more money the further they continue into their career — and, by extension, end up
in a
higher tax bracket by the time they retire.
This works well for
people who expect to
be in a
higher tax bracket when they retire, because they'll have already paid
taxes on that money when they contributed, not when they withdraw.
In other words these people were immediately thrown into a higher tax bracket than they were in befor
In other words these
people were immediately thrown into a
higher tax bracket than they
were in befor
in before.