The rules state that you must
withdraw equal payments for a minimum of five years or until you reach 59 1/2, whichever comes later.
Not exact matches
- If you retire early, you can take what the IRS mellifluously calls «substantially
equal periodic
payments,» or, even more memorably, a «72 (t) election,» and start
withdrawing from a 401 (k) or IRA with no penalty, as long as you continue doing so indefinitely.
However, under an RRSP meltdown strategy, you would offset the additional tax by taking out an investment loan and making the interest
payments from funds you
withdraw from your RRSP (the withdrawals must be
equal to the interest
payment).
Substantially
equal periodic
payments (google it) let you
withdraw early, but you are locked into continued withdrawls for 5 years.
The Required Minimum Distribution method for calculating your Series of Substantially
Equal Periodic
Payments (under § 72 (t)(2)(A)(iv)-RRB- calculates the specific amount that you must
withdraw from your IRA, 401k, or other retirement plan each year, based upon your account balance at the end of the previous year.
To make a long story short, all the IRS requires is that you start making withdrawals using «substantially
equal periodic
payments over your life expectancy;» and thus are not
withdrawing «too much,» nor too little; and are always paying taxes on this income annually.
Even though the IRS will allow most ways of
withdrawing «substantially
equal periodic
payments,» they publish three set formulas as guidelines.