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Trouble with the IRS? Let an ERPA guide you
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUN 08, 2022
Trouble with the IRS? Let an ERPA guide you

A second-generation enrolled retirement plan agent explains how he helps companies smooth out plan problems with the IRS.

By Gregg Greenberg
Fending off taxes, fees and other state threats to adviser autonomy and growth
RETIREMENT OPINION JUN 07, 2022
Fending off taxes, fees and other state threats to adviser autonomy and growth

Fees, financial literacy and the freedom to work as an independent contractor are all under debate in state legislatures — and relevant to the growth of advisers' practices

By Dale Brown
Social Security report projects trust fund exhaustion in 2035
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUN 02, 2022
Social Security report projects trust fund exhaustion in 2035

The latest annual report from the Social Security and Medicare Trustees moves the program's insolvency date back by one year.

By Mary Beth Franklin
Market correction puts Roth conversions on the front burner
RETIREMENT RIAS JUN 01, 2022
Market correction puts Roth conversions on the front burner

The tax implications of an IRA conversion are far from automatic and can be difficult to forecast this early in the year.

By Jeff Benjamin
Choosing between survivor and divorced spouse's benefits
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 25, 2022
Choosing between survivor and divorced spouse's benefits

Age, work status and benefit amounts dictate which Social Security benefit to claim first.

By Mary Beth Franklin
2023 Social Security COLA could be biggest in 40 years
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 11, 2022
2023 Social Security COLA could be biggest in 40 years

The April report on consumer prices suggests inflation could result in an 8.6% cost-of-living adjustment to next year’s benefits.

By Mary Beth Franklin
Avantax boosts recruiting bonus to add advisers
RETIREMENT PRACTICE MANAGEMENT MAY 06, 2022
Avantax boosts recruiting bonus to add advisers

Providing hefty bonuses to recruit financial advisers is like a sugar rush: sweet at first but it comes with a downside.

By Bruce Kelly
Social Security underpaid older children by nearly $60 million
RETIREMENT TAX MAY 05, 2022
Social Security underpaid older children by nearly $60 million

Minor and disabled children are eligible for benefits when a parent retires or dies, and those benefits extend until the child is 18 — or 19 if still in high school.

By Mary Beth Franklin
New rules make IRAs less useful for transferring wealth: Ed Slott
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 03, 2022
New rules make IRAs less useful for transferring wealth: Ed Slott

Doing a Roth conversion is one way to avoid a tax hit later, Slott said, and life insurance is another, often-overlooked tool.

By Joanne Cleaver
Vanguard clients decry tax debacle
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 02, 2022
Vanguard clients decry tax debacle

Many Vanguard clients who invested in target-date funds face significantly higher tax bills this year because of a change the company made to its target-date funds in late 2020.

By Bloomberg
Advisers, brokers to continue paying Tennessee tax
RETIREMENT REGULATION AND LEGISLATION APR 25, 2022
Advisers, brokers to continue paying Tennessee tax

The state imposes an annual $400 levy, the so-called privilege tax, on members of certain professions who do business in the state.

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
Social Security spousal benefits options
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING APR 22, 2022
Social Security spousal benefits options

The opportunity to use a valuable claiming strategy will soon disappear.

By Mary Beth Franklin
FSI, FPA fight state-level taxes on financial advisers
RETIREMENT RIAS APR 21, 2022
FSI, FPA fight state-level taxes on financial advisers

A bill in Tennessee would eliminate a privilege tax levied on investment advisers. A proposal to tax financial advice was stopped in Kentucky.

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
Social Security rules when divorcing a younger husband
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING APR 18, 2022
Social Security rules when divorcing a younger husband

An ex-wife must wait for her former husband to turn 62 to claim benefits on his record.

By Mary Beth Franklin
Supreme Court rejects state challenge to SALT deduction cap
RETIREMENT REGULATION AND LEGISLATION APR 18, 2022
Supreme Court rejects state challenge to SALT deduction cap

The court refused to review a New York-led constitutional challenge to the $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions imposed in the 2017 tax law.

By Bloomberg
Made a killing in crypto? Your tax bill is coming due
RETIREMENT ALTERNATIVES APR 07, 2022
Made a killing in crypto? Your tax bill is coming due

Digital tokens like Bitcoin and Ethereum are classified as property by the Internal Revenue Service and taxed like stocks and bonds.

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
Social Security rules when widows remarry
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING APR 01, 2022
Social Security rules when widows remarry

Survivor benefits can continue for those who wait until they're 60 to wed.

By Mary Beth Franklin
How Biden's billionaire tax would hit the wealthy
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING APR 01, 2022
How Biden's billionaire tax would hit the wealthy

Under Biden's plan, wealthy individuals would owe taxes on the unrealized gains of their assets, in addition to realized gains, a change that would upend long-standing tax principles.

By Bloomberg
Taxing financial planning services is not the answer
RETIREMENT OPINION MAR 30, 2022
Taxing financial planning services is not the answer

Proposed legislation in Kentucky that would tax services including financial planning and investment management could significantly harm the way Kentuckians save and plan for retirement.

By Dennis J. Moore
Advisers place little faith in Biden's 'billionaire tax'
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING MAR 29, 2022
Advisers place little faith in Biden's 'billionaire tax'

The proposal, which goes after households worth at least $100 million, enters unprecedented territory by trying to tax unrealized gains.

By Jeff Benjamin