IRA Rules

Archive for July, 2005

Question: What decide which bracket the traditional IRA will be taxed on at distribution?

I know it’s taxed when you get the money from traditional IRA, but is it taxed on your current income bracket or the amount of money you take out?

say you retire earlier and sell your biz.. so you pay no income tax, then even if you take out your IRA early, pay 10% penalty, do you still pay income tax on the money?

Answer: It will depend on what your total income is in the year you take the distribution.

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Question: Can I withdrawal contributions to Roth IRA w/o penalty or any other tax etc.?

I would like to withdrawal a portion of the contributions to my Roth IRA.
No special reason other than the economy stinks and I can use the cash. In one sentence the IRS seems to say you can withdrawal from Roth no problem and in the next say it has to be for a small list of reasons or your taxed/penalized.

My belief is that I can pull out the contributions BUT not the earnings FROM the contributions.

Is this correct?????

Thanks for your time.

Answer: That is correct. You can pull out the contributions from your ROTH without taxes or penalties. If you pull out more than your contributions, then you will pay penalties on the earnings that you withdraw if you are not yet 59.5 years old.

Instead of taking money from a nice vehicle where the earnings are tax free, why don’t you just move them into something less volatile of you are nervous about the stock and bond markets. You can move it into the money market and make 3% which will be tax free as long as it is in the Roth. Then you can always move it back into investments once the markets look ripe again.

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