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If you think saving for retirement is complicated, try figuring out how to withdraw retirement funds while minimizing taxes.

“As much as 70 percent of your hard-earned retirement funds can be eaten up by income, estate and state taxes,” says IRA guru Ed Slott, author of the retirement-planning books “Fund Your Future: A Tax-Smart Savings Plan in Your 20s and 30s” and “The Retirement Savings Time Bomb … and How to Defuse It.”

While a recent Investment Company Institute survey indicates that contributions to IRAs are low — likely because IRA rules are “complicated” — advisors are also confused about the rules, according to IRA and tax expert Ed Slott of Ed Slott and Co.

A $1 contribution today to a new Roth individual retirement account may not sound like much.But that seemingly small sum might save you a bundle in taxes down the road due to an under-the-radar timing requirement.

Your initial Roth IRA contribution starts the clock on something called the “five-year rule,″ said Ed Slott, a certified public accountant and IRA expert based in Rockville Centre, New York

Ed Slott on the legislation’s provisions for matching and catch-up contributions as well as for workers who currently lack a company retirement plan.

The new provision in the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (Secure) 2.0 Act allowing unused 529 plan funds to be rolled into Roth IRAs, which becomes effective in 2024, includes “lots of limitations,” according to IRA and tax expert Ed Slott of Ed Slott and Co.

Policymakers tout recent legislation as offering a leg-up to Americans struggling to save for retirement, but one tax and retirement expert says not to believe the hype.

The SECURE Act 2.0, enacted at the end of last year, will bring about some important changes for retirement planners—but it’s not as impactful as its predecessor, 2019’s the SECURE Act, said Ed Slott, president of Slott & Co.

As a financial planning concept, the subject of tax diversification is relatively simple: It means utilizing a number of different types of investing and savings accounts that are taxed differently for federal and state income tax purposes.

But, as explored in the latest episode of the Great Retirement Debate podcast hosted by Ed Slott and Jeff Levine, putting the concept of tax diversification into practice is anything but simple, especially when it comes to planning for retirement.

A new law increasing the age you must withdraw from your retirement accounts may come with some unexpected and expensive consequences.

Retirement legislation President Biden inked in December pushes the age that retirees must start taking required minimum distributions, or RMDs, from IRAs, 401(k)s, and 403(b) plans, to 73 this year, up from 72.That will bump up higher to age 75 in 2033

In your 30s, responsibilities pick up.You’re likely to buy your first home and grow your family

Rushing in a 2022 contribution before the April 18 deadline?Tax and IRA expert Ed Slott shares what you need to know.