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- From: shoaf@helix.nih.gov (Susan E. Shoaf)
- Subject: Re: Mortgage or retirement
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.152127.25422@alw.nih.gov>
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- Organization: (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD)
- References: <BGLENDEN.92Dec30180102@colobus.cv.nrao.edu> <30DEC199223315551@csa1.lbl.gov>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 15:21:27 GMT
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- In article <30DEC199223315551@csa1.lbl.gov> schindler@csa1.lbl.gov (AARON SCHINDLER) writes:
- >In article <BGLENDEN.92Dec30180102@colobus.cv.nrao.edu>, bglenden@colobus.cv.nrao.edu (Brian Glendenning) writes...
- >>
- >> 1) Go for a 15 year mortgage; or
- >> 2) Go for a 30 year mortgage and put the difference into
- >> 403(b) savings.
- >>
- >The question comes down to: Should you put money into your 403(b) or pay
- >down your mortgage faster? When deciding such questions it is useful to
- >do a "what if". What if you are in the top income tax bracket... say 35%
-
- To be the pessimist: What if you want (or need) the money before you can retire?
-
- >
- >PAYING OFF THE MORTGAGE ROUTE
- >
- >You earn $1. After taxes you have $0.65. You send $.65 to your mortgage
- >banker. Next year you have to pay .09*.65 = $0.059 less interest. But
- >since that interest was tax deductible, you are really only saving
- >(1-.35)*.059 = $0.038. So the net result is that next year you will have
- >made a return of .038/.65 = 5.85% return on your money. (To be sure you
- >won't have made any money, but as Ben Franklin liked to say, "A penny saved
- >is a penny earned.") 15 years from now, your $.65 compounding at 5.85% will
- >be worth $1.66.
-
- You can take out a home equity loan and the interest is tax deductible.
-
- >
- >403b ROUTE
- >
- >You earn $1. It goes into your 403b pretax. After 15 years your $1 compounding
- >at 8% will be worth $3.30. Then (say you are over 59.5 years old) you withdraw
- >it from your 403b and pay tax. Tax =.35*3.3 = $1.16. Net return
- >is $3.30 - 1.16 = $2.14.
- >
- >As we can see, even if my numbers are off or this isn't your exact situation,
- >you are far more likely to come out ahead by investing in a 403b. "Borrow
- >the money for your IRA -- even if you have it." --Strategy #119 "Wealth Without
- >Risk" by Charles Givens. You get the added bonus that the interest on the
- >money you are borrowing is tax deductible.
-
- You lose some percent to penalty and then you must pay taxes on it as well.
-
- >
- >p.s. I'd be delighted if you found a flaw in my argument.
- >
-
-
- No flaws, just what if YOU NEED IT NOW!
-
- --
- shoaf@clinpharm.niaaa.nih.gov
-
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