IRA Catch Up Limits Help Baby Boomers
If you fall into the Baby Boomer generation, having been born between 1946 and 1964, this 3rd stage of life, retirement,
is right in front of you. Keep in mind, that potentially, this is the longest stage of life, possibly lasting 20-30 years. Dont' fail to prepare for this very important transition into your retirement years.
The prospect of actually becoming a retiree looms larger as the years go by. Fortunately, it's just become a little easier to build savings for your retirement years. Why? Because, starting Jan.
1, you can put in $1,000 in "catch-up" contributions to your traditional or Roth IRA, up from $500 in 2005. So, given the $4,000 annual limit for regular contributions, you can put in a total of $5,000 to your IRA in 2006.
Fully funding your IRA should be one of your top investment priorities. Keep in mind that IRAs offer two major benefits:
Tax advantages - If you have a traditional IRA, your earnings have the potential to grow tax-deferred, so your money can grow faster than it would in an investment on which you paid taxes every year. (You will eventually have to pay taxes on your earnings, but, by then, you may be in a lower tax bracket.) Also, depending on your income level, your contributions may be tax-deductible.
When you have a Roth IRA, you can withdraw your contributions at any time, free of taxes. You can also take out earnings, free of taxes, as long as you don't begin withdrawals until you are 59-1/2 and you've had your account for at least five years.
Variety of investment options - You can invest your IRA in virtually any security you choose - stocks, bonds, Treasury bills, certificates of deposit, etc. In fact, you're not confined to just one type of investment within your IRA; you can create a diversified portfolio containing a variety of holdings.
Given these tax advantages and this investment flexibility, it's almost certainly a good idea to "max out" on your IRA every single year.
Of course, it's not always that easy to come up with $5,000 at one time, but you don't have to. You can fund your IRA over the course of a year by putting in about $416 per month. And, to make it even easier for you to completely fund your IRA, you could have that $416 moved automatically, via a bank authorization, from your checking or savings account to your IRA.
But however you do it - over 12 months or right away - put the full amount into your IRA. Along with your 401(k) or other employer-sponsored retirement plan, your IRA is one of the best retirement-savings vehicles you have available.
And now that you are on the "plus" side of 50, you'll want to really focus your efforts on making sure you have the resources available to enjoy the retirement lifestyle you deserve.
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Roth IRA Contributions
The Roth IRA, or the individual retirement arrangement, is an ideal way to save for the retirement years. An individual can open his own IRA and contribute funds to it. What an individual contributes to the Roth IRA is termed as the compensation income. If you are employed, then the compensation income is the paycheck you get in lieu of your services. Compensation income can also be the income you get from being self-employed, or what you get from an alimony settlement.
There is a limit to the amount which a person can contribute.
The Contribution cannot be more than $4,000 per financial year, or 100% of your earned income, whichever is less. To contribute to the Roth IRA, you need to have taxable income, and also the adjusted gross income should be less than $110,000 individually, $160,000 if you are married and file a joint return, and $100,000 if you are married but file separate returns. Also, the amount you contribute to the Roth IRA will be reduced by the Contributions...
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In order to understand Roth IRA Accounts, you first need to understand the concept of a Roth IRA. IRA is an acronym for individual retirement arrangements, wherein an earning person can contribute his money to a Roth IRA account. The advantage of this arrangement is that, though the contributions themselves are subject to tax deductions, withdrawals are not taxed. The advantage of this is that your income is allowed to grow tax-free.
This means while a contribution is made with after-tax money, there is no tax involved with the withdrawal, subject to certain conditions.
So in a way, the Roth IRA is a good way to convert income earned from dividends, interest, and capital gains etc. into tax-free money.
An individual cannot contribute more than $4,000 to the Roth IRA Account, though he may have a large number of such accounts. But the contribution limit to these accounts should not exceed $4,000.
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