The IRS’ final rules on required minimum distributions for beneficiaries under the 10-year rule, released Thursday, have created ”an unnecessary complication” that only Congress can fix, according to IRA and tax expert Ed Slott of Ed Slott & Co.
While an IRA rollover is the best move for most people when distributing money from a 401(k) plan, there is a special case when a lump-sum distribution makes sense — and the justification for one is “bigger than ever,” according to tax and IRA expert Ed Slott of Ed Slott & Co.
It would almost be malpractice for any financial or tax advisor to ignore the coming tax storm,” according to Ed Slott of Ed Slott & Co.
That’s one of the central themes in his new book, “The Retirement Savings Time Bomb Ticks Louder,” Slott told ThinkAdvisor in a recent email exchange. “The taxes growing in the IRAs are what my book title refers to, a ticking tax time bomb.”
Whether a client’s retirement dreams are five years away or 50, the single greatest threat standing in their way is taxes, warns Ed Slott of Ed Slott & Co.
The right tax management strategy can save clients hundreds of thousands of dollars, while the wrong strategy — or no strategy at all — can bring undue hardship during their golden years.
The Labor Department is “going all-in on the IRA rollovers” with its final fiduciary rule, according to Ed Slott of Ed Slott and Co.
As 2023 winds down, Ed Slott of Ed Slott and Co. reminds advisors that staying on top of the latest retirement and tax-related developments is ”the best way of putting the client’s interest first.”
Advisor recommendations on IRA rollover transactions are fiduciary advice under the Labor Department’s proposed new fiduciary rule, and “would fall within the scope of investment advice,” according to Ed Slott of Ed Slott & Co.
Advisors are “getting hammered” with one big year-end tax question from clients now, according to IRA and tax expert Ed Slott: Do I have to take a required minimum distribution for 2023?
While it “sounds simple,” Slott of Ed Slott & Co. relayed, RMDs “are confounding advisors this year like never before.”
Advisors should take advantage of today’s low tax rates — and “do Roth conversions while taxes are on sale!” according to Ed Slott of Ed Slott & Co.
Every advisor, Slott told ThinkAdvisor Tuesday, “should be having this conversation with their clients. This may only last for the next three years (2023, 2024, and 2025). After that, tax rates are scheduled to revert back up to previous levels.”
This week, President Joe Biden released a proposed federal budget that would raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans to help address the solvency of key federal government entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security.
