In Tax Strategies For Seniors (and everyone else) – Chapter 1, we introduced the US Government graduated tax system and talked about some tax savings strategies. While the US (and state and local governments) need to collect taxes to provide services, none of us enjoy writing that tax check. We need to pay our fair […]
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Thanks to Tony for suggesting this topic. It’s February and it’s cold so there’s not much else to do but sit at home, watch the snow and worry about how much of our retirement savings – or earnings – Uncle Sam is going to take from us. Taxes I’ve written about our growing national debt
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It’s almost 2026. Can you believe it??? At around this time every year, most investors start reading articles about how it’s time for a year-end check-up. It seems like a lot of work so many investors just move on and stick with the program. And honestly, this isn’t the worst reaction. With investing, often laziness
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Welcome to retirement. We’ve spent 40 years of our life socking away money and now it’s time to start spending the money we’ve saved. This should be easy, right? Unfortunately, it’s not as simple as we might have hoped. And the potential impacts of taxes could cost us. Let’s take a look. Account Types If
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There has been a lot of excitement about taxing the rich via a tax on unrealized gains. Check out this article from CNN here. The title says: Ignore Social Media? In general, I agree with this strategy. Social media is a breeding ground for misinformation. The CNN article is clear that the proposed legislation targets
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If you’re anything like me, you want to spend as little time on taxes as possible. There’s nothing worse than seeing a huge chunk of our paycheck each week going to pay Federal, State, Local (maybe), Social Security, and sometimes other taxes. Yuck! But taxes serve a purpose. It’s nice to see the poor folks
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Who doesn’t love a long-winded discussion on taxes??? OK, I promise it is not that and I promise it is not everything you need to know, because that would fill a book or 2, but we’ll talk about some of the key concepts that we all should understand in order to maximize our total returns.
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