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Know These 3 Facts to Avoid Paying Half Your Retirement Income to the IRS - January 30, 2020

edited January 2020 in Fund Discussions
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/know-these-3-facts-to-avoid-paying-half-your-retirement-income-to-the-irs-january-30-2020

Know These 3 Facts to Avoid Paying Half Your Retirement Income to the IRS - January 30, 2020



If you do not make a required minimum distribution (RMD) from your own or an inherited IRA by the specified deadline, the IRS could hit you with a big penalty - 50%! For example, if you were required to withdraw a minimum of $4,000 and you did not, you would be obliged to pay $2,000. Plus, beginning January 1, 2020, the rules concerning RMDs were updated.

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  • Zacks is just recycling its pablum. It's not all nonsense, but it has a fair share of misstatements, errors, and opinion masquerading as facts.

    Its last NASDAQ contribution, dated Jan 14, was also linked to in a post
    https://mutualfundobserver.com/discuss/discussion/54970/retirees-should-know-these-3-facts-about-required-minimum-distributions-january-14-2020

    Compare and contrast with the excerpt above:
    Retirees Should Know These 3 Facts About Required Minimum Distributions - January 14, 2020

    Failing to withdraw a required minimum distribution (RMD) from your own or an inherited IRA by the deadline results in a big tax code penalty: 50%. That's right. If you were supposed to take out a minimum of $4,000 and (oops!) did not do so, you have the privilege of writing the IRS a check for $2,000. It's important to remember that the rules related to RMDs changed on January 1, 2020.
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