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- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: IRA contribution restriction?!
- Path: sparky!uunet!sci34hub!cdthq!gary
- From: gary@cdthq.UUCP (Gary Heston)
- Message-ID: <61XNwB3w161w@cdthq.UUCP>
- References: <C02xxr.3As.2@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 14:13:28 CST
- Organization: Garys' Home for Obsolete Computers
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- moody@e4.ius.cs.cmu.edu (James Moody) writes:
-
- > I was just told that one cannot contribute more than $2K per year to an
- > IRA, that if you do the IRS will penalize you. Is this true??? I
- > guess I always assumed that the $2K limit was the max you could deduct
- > on your 1040. I skipped contributing for a couple of years, and wanted
- > to make up for it now. If this limit is true I guess I'm out of luck.
-
- No, you can only defer taxes on up to $2K/year (single), additional
- contributions are treated as nondeferred. There's no penalty for
- going over, as long as you don't mind tying up the money. You can't
- make up for lower contributions in the past.
-
- > Just out of curiosity, what kind of penalty will can the IRS impose if
- > one over-contributes?
-
- If you take the excess out, the 10% penalty for early withdrawl applies.
-
- Gary Heston, at home...
- gary@cdthq.uucp
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