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- From: grady@world.std.com (Dick Grady)
- Subject: Re: 401K--to rollover or not?
- Message-ID: <C0ALyv.48u@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <C04qJy.40H@jti.com> <C086Jr.3A2@world.std.com>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 19:25:42 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <C086Jr.3A2@world.std.com> philip@world.std.com (Philip Borenstein) writes:
- >richb@jti.com (Richard Braun) writes:
- >
- >>I have a simple financial-planning question, brought on by some paperwork
- >>sent me by a former employer:
- >
- >>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:
- >
- >> - Leave it where it is
- >> - Roll it into a personal IRA
- >
- >
- >Bear in mind that the IRS has set up a trap for the unwary in 1993.
- >
- >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.
-
- The IRS isn't the agency that set this trap.
- *CONGRESS* did, in the 1992 tax reform (?) law. And Bush signed it!
- The IRS is just enforcing the law, as written.
-
- So if you don't like this withholding provision, complain to Congrss and
- to Clinton.
-
- --
- Dick Grady Salem, NH, USA grady@world.std.com
- So many newsgroups, so little time!
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