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Evan on
January 19, 2012 in
Rant
I don’t want to pay higher taxes then what the law mandates. In fact a large part of my day is spent helping people plan for the Federal and State Estate Tax and I love my job. I am not sure why I get so excited helping people plan to lower their tax bill. If…
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Written by
Evan on
January 4, 2012 in
Rant
I was talking to a buddy the other day and somehow the discussion of public employees came up, and we asked ourselves the same exact question at almost the same exact time: Why in the hell are new public employees still able to join State backed defined benefit pension plans? First and foremost, I am…
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Editor’s Note: I usually put an indication at the end of a post whether it is a guest post, however, considering the title I felt like notice should be moved up. This was a guest post from Corey at Passive Income to Retire, where he tracks his progress to retire by the age of 27. In…
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A little over a year ago I wrote about my problems with a personal finance trend commonly referred to as “Early Retirement Extreme.” It still remains a pretty popular post with a few comments from the movement’s most popular proponent, Jacob Lund Fisker. Within that post and the subsequent 50+ comments I laid out the…
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More than 19 million people in the UK save money in ISAs – many of them pensioners, and many of them use stocks and shares ISAs. This can be a good way to limit your tax liabilities on investments, as you are not required to pay any tax on the interest or dividends you earn…
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It isn’t hard to find an article that discusses Safe Withdrawal rates, but I am not exactly sure why it is such a hot topic in retirement planning. Investopedia provides a pretty succinct definition of the Safe Withdrawal Rate (which they refer to as the 4% rule), What Does Four Percent Rule Mean? A rule…
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