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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Dividends and Capital Gains in an IRA
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 09:14:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.151530.5193@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu> adkins@singha.eng.ohio-state.edu (Kenneth C. Adkins) writes:
- >This recent thread about IRAs has raised a question for me. If I have
- >my IRA money in some stock fund that may pay dividends and/or capital
- >gains distributions, I don't pay any taxes NOW on that income, right?
-
- Right.
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- This is one benefit of IRA's over many "tax-free" investments such as
- municipal bonds (and mutual funds containing them). Dividends from
- municipal bonds are tax-free, but capital gains are not.
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- Barry Margolin
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