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- From: weiser@pogo.den.mmc.com (Matt Weiser)
- Subject: Re: 401K
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.181103.19374@den.mmc.com>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:11:03 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.211149.16223@dsd.es.com>, pmartz@dsd.es.com (Paul Martz) writes:
- >
- <stuff deleted>>
-
- > The problem I have with it is that you don't pay tax on the money you
- > put in, and you DO pay tax on the money you pull out. If you allow the
- > interest to compound over, say, 30 years, you stand to take out alot
- > more than you ever put in, so even though you're in a lower tax
- > bracket, you pay more taxes. Example: you put away $3000/yr of your
- > own 401K money. You don't pay taxes on this. You save about $450/yr in
- > taxes. 35 years later, this money is worth $600,000, and you start
- > pulling out 4%/yr dividends, or $24,000. You pay about $2400/yr in
- > taxes on this. See the disparity?
- >
- > Contrast this with a life insurance policy that allows you to draw
- > dividends after so many years. You pay tax on the money you put into
- > the policy, but the dividends are normally tax free. This seems like a
- > much better investment as far as avoiding taxes goes.
- > --
- >
- > -paul pmartz@dsd.es.com
- > Evans & Sutherland
-
- Yea, if your goal is to avoid taxes at the expense of making money.
- You can do a lot better than either of these by taking everything
- you make and spending it. Then you won't have to pay income taxes
- at all! The ultimate income tax avoidance scheme! :-)
-
- Matt Weiser
- weiser@pogo.den.mmc.com
-