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- From: jaorans@pbhyg.PacBell.COM (Jeff Oransky)
- Subject: Re: What good is a non-deductible IRA?
- Organization: Pacific * Bell
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 14:55:49 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.145549.15467@pbhyg.PacBell.COM>
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- In article <1992Dec30.075753.20994@news2.cis.umn.edu> prabhak@giga.cs.umn.edu (Satya Prabhakar) writes:
- >(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.
- >>
- >I am not sure this is correct! Even if you don't receive any
- >distributions in hand, you will have to account for it in
- >the capital gains schedule. Second opinion, anyone?
- >
- You are right, this is not a true statement. All dividends and capital
- gains that a mutual fund distributes, even if they are automatically
- reinvested, are taxable as income and must be reported on schedule B.
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