One of the most important planning decisions you’ll make is how to best generate income for your retirement. Different sources of income have different characteristics and potentially different pension tax consequences. It’s very important to be wise in establishing and maintaining your post retirement cash flow. Here are the various types of income and their representative taxation: (more…)

Imagine if you’re retired now, how many times you gave a second thought for the date of your Required Minimum Distributions (RMDS or minimum distribution) from your retirement accounts? Each retirement account holder retired U.S. who are over the age of 70.5 years (except for Roth IRA owners) should take annual RMD. On the other hand, tax law does not explicitly mention the exact date of the distributions. Yes it is clear that it must be from 31 taking December of each calendar every year. (more…)

Some employee working for employers are been offered some type of pension plan. If a pension plan meets several federal government requirements, it can achieve “qualified” plan’s status. A qualified pension plan enables participating employees to save money for retirement and put it into a retirement account that is subject to the requirements of the regulatory. Money in this type of account earns tax-deferred interest, the advantages of such is you don’t have to pay income taxes on the earnings until you draw your money. On the other case, if you draw money from your retirement (more…)