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- From: philip@world.std.com (Philip Borenstein)
- Subject: Re: 401K--to rollover or not?
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- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 11:57:27 GMT
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- richb@jti.com (Richard Braun) writes:
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- >I have a simple financial-planning question, brought on by some paperwork
- >sent me by a former employer:
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- >Given that my new employer has no retirement plan, I can't roll over my
- >balance at a previous employer's 401K plan into a similar one. It appears
- >I have two options:
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- > - Leave it where it is
- > - Roll it into a personal IRA
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- Bear in mind that the IRS has set up a trap for the unwary in 1993.
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- Be sure that you do a direct transfer to the IRA rather than take a
- distribution from the 401(k). Otherwise, your former employer is required to
- withhold 20% which you have to then "make up" when you place the money in
- an IRA. You'll get the 20% back, of course, (as a tax credit I think). But
- if the amount in your 401(k) is substantial, and you can't make the 20%
- yourself, it becomes INCOME taxed at your rate with the 10% tacked on.
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