The simple answer is that while most of us live off our salaries, tycoons like Jeff Bezos live off their wealth. In 2019, when Mr. Bezos was still Amazon’s chief executive, he took home an annual salary of just $81,840. But he owns roughly 10 percent of the company, which made a...
tax-free distributions. The first is the same as the Roth IRA: the account must have been open for at least five tax years. The second requires the account holder to be at least 59½ years of age, permanently disabled, or taking withdrawals from an inherited account. Whether or not you...
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With respect to liquid assets, the recipient should be allowed a full income-tax deduction if he rolls the gift or bequest into a deductible IRA. The combination of these simple rules would be much more equitable than our current system, and it would prevent people from having to sell ...
Northwestern University, the Sixth Circuit held this past summer that ERISA does not give the courts any type of broad license to second-guess the investment decisions of retirement plans. In this case, the plaintiffs were participants who claimed the plan breached their fiduciary duties by ...
Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) Plan: A SEP plan is a type of retirement plan for self-employed individuals and small businesses, where employers contribute to their own and their employees’ retirement accounts. Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees (SIMPLE) IRA: A SIMPLE IRA is a retire...
The Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 (TRA) included provisions that reduced capital gains taxes (taxes on gains in value of equities, properties, or other holdings) on equities held for more than 18 months; created the Roth IRA, which allowed investors to withdraw their original investment from an...
Personal service corporations are taxed by multiplying taxable income by 21%.2There are tax benefits that come with organizing as a C corporation, which is why many high-earning professionals use the structure. For example, a C corporation allows employee-owners to leave some of their earnings ...
Very Simple Assumptions Annual gross salary is $20,000. Income tax is 25% of gross income. There is no interest charged on any loans, as I’m just trying to isolate the issue of double-taxation. There is no growth in the funds, either. He doesn’t need to eat or sleep, so no ot...