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Ed Slott

Ed Slott, a certified public accountant, is a financial expert specializing in retirement planning, IRAs and tax issues. He created the IRA Leadership Program and Ed Slott's Elite IRA Advisor Group. Twitter: @theslottreport

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A fraud warning for self-directed IRAs

In September, the SEC issued an investor alert warning investors to be wary of fraudulent promoters targeting self-directed IRAs

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IRAs and special-needs trusts

In a recent private-letter ruling (PLR 201116005), the Internal Revenue Service allowed a disabled beneficiary to transfer his share of two inherited individual retirement accounts to a special-needs trust of which he was the beneficiary

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Roth re-characterization confusion

Recent market volatility exposed a basic misunderstanding by financial advisers and even certified public accountants of the mechanics of undoing Roth conversions, a process called a Roth re-characterization

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Broken window: Rollover horror stories

When clients withdraw money from an individual retirement account or employer retirement plan and want to move those funds to another retirement account, they must roll over those funds within 60 days of the date that they received the distribution from the plan or IRA

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401(k) rights trumped by ERISA

In a recent case (Cajun Industries LLC v. Robert Kidder, et al.), the court ruled that despite having previously named his three children as beneficiaries of his 401(k) plan, a deceased plan participant's 401(k) balance will pass to his new wife

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Reporting Roth IRA conversions

Get ready for an avalanche of Form 8606 questions

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Your 2011 Roth IRA questions answered

Last year, many financial advisers worked with clients to implement Roth conversions

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A valuable late-year IRA extension

The Tax Relief Act of 2010 includes an extension of the qualified-charitable-distribution provision retroactive from Jan. 1, 2010, through Dec. 31, 2011

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Law creates more options for Roth rollovers

The Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 includes a provision that allows certain 401(k) and 403(b) participants to convert their plan funds to a Roth 401(k) or Roth 403(b) within the plan

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Dangers in using IRAs for business startups

When the Internal Revenue Service names a transaction “Robs,” that can't be good.