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- From: dmturne@ptsfa.PacBell.COM (Dave Turner)
- Subject: Re: IRA contribution restriction?!
- Reply-To: dmturne@PacBell.COM (Dave Turner)
- Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 06:44:27 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.064427.28255@ptsfa.PacBell.COM>
- References: <C02xxr.3As.2@cs.cmu.edu> <61XNwB3w161w@cdthq.UUCP>
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- In article <61XNwB3w161w@cdthq.UUCP> gary@cdthq.UUCP (Gary Heston) writes:
- >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.
- >
-
- According to the IRS Publication 590 (IRAs) for 1991 (for taxes due
- April 15, 1992), there is a 6% tax on excess contributions which remain in
- your IRA by the end of the tax year. The tax is due for every year until
- the excess is corrected.
-
- Pub 590 has more to say than I care to type here and the rules may have
- changed for 1992. You'd better get a current copy and read it.
-
-
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- Dave Turner (510) 823-2001 {att,bellcore,sun,ames,decwrl}!pacbell!dmturne
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