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States That Don't Tax Income
Alaska, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington and Wyoming
States That Don't Tax Retirement Distributions
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Key Concepts
Tax Planning
2024 Secure Act Retirement Tax Change Summary
Many of these changes stem from the SECURE Act 2.0, passed by Congress at the end of 2022, which overhauled aspects of the American retirement system. Among the most powerful:
- Defined contribution retirement plans would be able to add an emergency savings account giving participants penalty-free access to funds.
- Older workers will be able to contribute more to their 401(k)s and other qualified retirement accounts.
- Required minimum distributions (RMDs) from workplace Roth 401(k)s will become a thing of the past.
- Employers will be allowed to reward student loan payments by employees with matching contributions into their retirement accounts.
- And rolling over unused funds in a 529 college savings plan to a Roth IRA just got a whole lot easier.
Taken together, these adjustments can help with retirement planning and provide a boost to your savings. Here are the details.
Retirement RMD rules
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Another way to reduce RMDs is by buying a deferred income annuity. You can invest up to 25% of your IRA or 401(k) account (or $135,000, whichever is less) in a type of deferred income annuity known as a qualified longevity annuity contract (QLAC). When you reach a specified age, which can be as late as 85, the insurance company turns your deposit into payments that are guaranteed to last the rest of your life
The portion of savings used for the annuity is excluded from the calculation to determine your RMDs. For example, if you have $500,000 in an IRA and transfer $100,000 into a QLAC, your RMD is based only on the remaining $400,000. This doesn’t eliminate your tax bill—it just defers it. The taxable portion of the money you invested will be taxed when you start receiving income from the annuity.
QLACs offer other advantages to retirees who want guaranteed income later in life. Because you’re deferring the income stream, payouts are much higher for deferred income annuities than they are for immediate annuities, which start payouts right away. For example, a 65-year-old man who invests $100,000 in an immediate annuity will receive a payout of $493 a month, according to www.immediateannuities.com. That same amount invested in a deferred-income annuity that begins payments at age 80 would pay $1,663 a month.
define options for accumulation period, investment guaranteed minimum returns, principal return to beneficiaries etc
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