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- From: ask@cbnews.cb.att.com (Arthur S. Kamlet)
- Subject: Re: Dividends and Capital Gains in an IRA
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 18:41:43 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.184143.22466@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Dec31.151530.5193@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu> <1i1218INNgi1@early-bird.think.com>
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- In article <1i1218INNgi1@early-bird.think.com> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
- >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.
- >
- >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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- This is correct.
-
- However, earnings of an IRA are not tax free, merely tax deferred.
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- BTW in Ohio, in general capital gains from Ohio municipals are
- deductible from Ohio income.
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- Art Kamlet a_s_kamlet@att.com AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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