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- Subject: Re: What good is a non-deductible IRA?
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 15:51 PST
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- In article <1hddvvINNa87@tamsun.tamu.edu>, tpradeep@cs.tamu.edu (Pradeep K Tapadiya) writes...
- >
- >But many growth funds offer a plan to automatically reinvest the capital
- >gains. As long as I don't receive any cash in hand, I don't pay any taxes.
- >Thus my earnings are tax-deferred without even having an IRA.
- >
- >Pradeep
-
- Yikes! Stop the presses, Pradeep. Capital gains distributions are taxable.
- I'd advise filing amended returns if you have neglected to declare this income
- in the past.
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- Aaron
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