Not exact matches
Thus you may
still be working at age 59 1/2,
in a
high tax bracket, and yet desire to take distributions from your ROTH Ira.
From Atlantic Canada to Alberta, British Columbia and federally, new
brackets were invented and other rates raised;
in addition, new and
higher taxes are still to come, including a federal carbon
tax.
If you withdraw it when you
are still working, you
are still in a
high tax bracket due to your
higher earnings, and then, the big lump sum tends to push you into an even
higher tax bracket of 28 - 35 % / 0 - 12 % rate.
If one
is in a
high tax bracket has a number of years
still to work they should do their homework and check it out for themselves.
But a traditional deductible IRA may
be a better tool if you want to lower your yearly
tax bill while you
're still working (and probably
in a
higher tax bracket than you'll
be in after you retire).
So, if you
're in a
higher tax bracket in 2019 than you will
be in the future, that final RRSP deduction, albeit at a lower income than your working years, may
still make sense.
Although simplification of the code
bracketing to a single
bracket for everyone
is the aim of all flat
tax proposals, the flat -
tax friendly senators who saw the bill through the Senate
still ended up with 7 progressive
tax brackets, the same number as before, although with some shifts
in bracketing that favored
higher - income taxpayers.
This can
still work out to
be a good deal for investors, especially if you
're in a
high tax bracket.
So even when you
're in the accumulation phase, and paying dividend and capital gains
taxes at the
highest bracket, this
is still less money than paying ordinary income rates at your lower (retired)
tax bracket.
But very risk averse investors who
are in higher tax brackets and have maxed out IRAs / 401 (k)
s may
still feel compelled to open such accounts.
My friends
in the [$ 250,000 + income
bracket that would
be subject to
tax increases] tend to have have
high mortgages, work 60 - 80 hours a week, pay 40 - 50K or more a year for child care (a nanny
is necessary when you often work into the late evening — and even day care for two kids
in the DC area costs close to 40K a year), and have six figures worth of student loans, primarily from professional school, that they
are still paying off.