“The classic worst case is you get divorced, your [ex-]wife is named as beneficiary and you never change the form,” said Ed Slott, a certified public accountant in Rockville Centre, New York.“You might have changed your will to leave everything to the kids
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“People get afraid and then don’t file their return,” said Ed Slott, a certified public accountant and founder of Ed Slott & Co.in Rockville Centre, New York
Investors have until April 17 to make an IRA contribution for the 2017 tax year.Joining me via Skype to discuss some IRA contribution mistakes to avoid is the IRA expert himself, Ed Slott.
“As we’ve seen recently, it can drop like a stone, instantly,” said Ed Slott, who educates financial advisers on IRAs and publishes the Slott Report.
Ed Slott, Ed Slott & Company, and Ric Edelman, Edelman Financial Services, discuss the advice they are giving to their financial advising clients in this volatile environment.
"You pay the tax on the way in so you don't have to pay the tax on the way out," says Ed Slott, a certified public accountant and founder of Ed Slott and Company and irahelp.com.
Ed Slott, a CPA in Rockville Centre, N.Y., recognized that Roths would become a game changer and started a newsletter in 1998 to teach advisers about the accounts.Slott calls Roth IRAs "tax insurance" because once you're invested in one, you won't have to pay taxes on contributions or earnings again.
"If you have something that you think can appreciate greatly, that's what you want in a Roth because everything in a Roth will appreciate tax-free," Slott said.
"In fact, there may never be a better time to do one, since tax rates are so low, and they're likely to rise in the future," said Ed Slott, founder of IRAhelp.com.
