Monday, April 6, 2009

IRA - Individual Retirement Arrangement - advantages

IRA - Individual Retirement Arrangement - advantages

One retirement plan account that provides some tax advantages for retirement savings in the United States is Individual Retirement Arrangement or IRA.
There more different types of IRAs:
- Roth Individual Retirement Arrangement - all transactions within the IRA have no tax impact,contributions are made with after-tax assets, and withdrawals are usually tax-free.
- Traditional Individual Retirement Arrangement - all transactions and earnings within the Individual Retirement Arrangementhave no tax impact

- SEP Individual Retirement Arrangement - a provision that allows to a small business or self-employed individual to make retirement plan contributions into a Traditional IRA established in the employee's name.
- SIMPLE Individual Retirement Arrangement - a simplified employee pension plan that allows both employee and employer contributions.
- Self-Directed Individual Retirement Arrangement - a self-directed Individual Retirement Arrangement that permits the account holder to make investments on behalf of the retirement plan.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

IRA - Individual Retirement Accounts

IRA - Individual Retirement Accounts

Traditional IRAs

Roth IRAs

Education IRAs.

Thinking of opening or adding to your IRA?

They're a type of interest-earning pension plan in which the permitted contributions and profits are not taxed till the funds are withdrawn, generally after age fifty-nine.

Because the investing are not taxed, they can rise more quickly and benefit by the power of compounding until they are withdrawn.

IRA contributions may be in full or partially tax allowable.