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- Savings Help for Self-Employed
- Work for yourself? Don't mourn that 401k! Tax laws allow the self-employed to save a lot more in special retirement savings plans than regular individual retirement accounts. So seize the tax breaks made just for you... It can be tough adjusting to life as an "accidental consultant." On top of...
- Articles 2009-03-09
- The Best Retirement Plans
- Whether you're working for a company or self-employed, these tax-favored savings plans can help you get your retirement account growing again. Has the market bottomed? Who knows? But there's one investing principle that's never in doubt: It always makes sense to grab every penny of tax advantage that Uncle Sam...
- Articles 2009-03-16
Additional Resources
- Real Estate Investors, Reduce Your Taxes While Contributing More Than $2,000 Annually to an IRA!
- The article is about real estate investors. One of the most frequently occurred question by investor is "Is there any way that can one contribute more than $2,000 to into a truly self directed IRA?." The first response to them is: "How much would they like to put into...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- SEP IRA Checklist
- This IRS checklist is intended to aid in keeping SEP Simplified Employee Pension IRA plans in compliance with tax rules. However, the 10-question checklist is not intended to be a complete description of all plan requirements.
- Tools & templates 2004-06-30
- Small employers serving up SEP-IRAs
- To avoid bank-breaking administrative costs and help employees save for retirement, some small employers are turning to SEP-IRAs, a crossbreed of a 401k and a profit-sharing plan. There are signs of SEP-IRA growth, at least in new plan launches, possibly among sole-proprietor businesses. Tom McGirr, a vice president at Fidelity...
- Research articles 2006-07-01
- Establishing an SEP IRA
- If one wants to establish a retirement plan for his business and he missed the last deadline to establish a qualified plan, one may want to consider establishing a SEP. While qualified plans must be established by the end of the plan year, SEPs may be established by the business'...
- White papers 2004-02-04
- Best Health and Retirement Plans for the Self-Employed
- As an entrepreneur, you need to become your own benefits manager. This guide will show you how to find the right health and retirement plans with the least amount of headaches. Health Benefits 1. Grab the subsidized COBRA deal, if...
- Articles 2009-08-27
- Individual Retirement Accounts
- "An IRA is the most basic sort of retirement arrangement. People tend to think of an IRA as something that just individuals do (hence the "I" in IRA). But an employer can help its employees to set up and fund their IRAs. With an IRA, what the employee gets at...
- White papers
- Overlooked Tax Deductions
- These tax deductions and credits can mean big savings on your 2008 federal income tax return. But you may not know about them, especially the new ones. So before you send in your return, check out these write-offs and take the ones you're due. ...
- Articles 2009-04-03
- Stretching Your IRA
- When looking into retirement investing options, one may have come across the term 'Stretch IRA'. This is actually not a category of IRA, such as a Traditional, Roth, SEP or SIMPLE IRA; instead, it is more like a financial-planning or wealth-management concept that acts as a provision of the IRAs...
- White papers 2004-07-07
- Small-business retirement savings adviser.(YourBusiness: BottomLine)
- This retirement adviser from the U.S. Department of Labor summarizes the options small-business owners can provide for their employees. These options are available to most small businesses with fewer than 100 employees. The SEP-IRA and Simple-IRA apply to companies that do not currently maintain any other...
- Research articles 2006-07-01
- Should Gold Be in Your IRA? It Depends.
- Within the last year, 401ks and IRAs have ceased to be a safe haven for Americans’ nest eggs. In 2008, employees lost on average 14%, or about $10,000, of their retirement money. Those with more than $200,000 are even worse off – they lost more than a...
- External links 2009-02-26
- Tis the Season for Required Minimum Distributions
- Retirement account owners who can finance their retirement years without using their retirement assets may prefer to enjoy indefinitely the tax-deferred growth offered to retirement plans. This, however, is not possible, as the IRS eventually wants the deferred taxes on these balances. If one has a Traditional IRA, SEP IRA...
- White papers 2002-12-10
- United States Examines Ira... Suspects' Computers.
- By Thanassis Cambanis, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 2--NAJAF, Ira...--American intelligence agents investigating the bombing of a religious shrine in this holy Shi'ite city are poring over three computers seized from bombing suspects, the commander of US Marines...
- Research articles 2003-09-02
- IRA Ownership in 2000
- An estimated 41 percent, or 42.5 million, of U.S. households owned Individual Retirement Accounts IRAs as of June 2000. Nearly one-third of U.S. households?an estimated 33.1 million?held traditional IRAs, making it the most common form of IRA ownership. Ten percent of U.S. households?an estimated 10.4 million? owned Roth IRAs, and...
- White papers 2000-10-01
- Some final reminders for your 2003 tax return.(FILING REMINDERS)
- Some final reminders for your 2003 return as April 15 approaches: Your 2003 IRA payin is due by April 15, even if a filing extension has been requested. Payins by mail are OK if postmarked before the 16th. Keogh payins can...
- Research articles 2004-04-08
- Reminders for your 2004 tax return.(FILING REMINDERS)
- Some final reminders for your 2004 return as April 15 approaches: Your 2004 IRA payin is due by April 15, even if a filing extension has been requested. Payins by mail are OK if postmarked before the 16th. Keogh payins can...
- Research articles 2005-03-24
- Self Employed 401k Calculator
- Self-employed individuals and businesses employing only the owner, partners and spouses have several options for tax-advantaged savings: an individual 401k plan, a SEP IRA, a SIMPLE IRA or a profit-sharing plan. Each option has distinct features and amounts that can be contributed to the plan each year. Use the self-employed...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Employer-Sponsored Retirement Plans
- The article discusses about the various employer-sponsored retirement plans. A 1999 study by National Small Business United and Arthur Andersen revealed that only 28 percent of small and medium-size businesses offer retirement benefits to their full-time employees. Many small businesses just can't afford to sponsor retirement plans. Case in point:...
- White papers 1999-01-18
- Unlawful killing: death on the rock. (court ruling on the 1988 shooting of three IRA terrorists by British soldiers)
- The European Court of Human Rights ruled 10-9 on Sep 27, 1995, that the shooting of three Irish Republican Army terrorists in Gibraltar in 1988 was unlawful. The court found that the British SAS operation was flawed. The ruling fueled Euroskeptic feeling in the UK.A BLOW for justice or a...
- Research articles 1995-09-30
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