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Yes, my current Fidelity 401k accepts all contribution types from outside 401k rollovers, including Roth 401k.

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The IRS has provided official guidance in Notice 2014-54 on how to divide a roll-over distributions containing both pre-tax and after-tax amounts among several receiving accounts: If the pretax amount with respect to the aggregated disbursements that are treated as a single distribution is less tha...

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If your current employer's 401k plan accepts IRA rollovers. You can rollover the previous employer's employee after-tax contributions to a Roth IRA and the associated pre-tax earnings to a traditional IRA. Then you can rollover the pre-tax IRA balance into the current employer's 401k plan. The Back...

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I have an old Schwab 401k account with a former employer. WIthin the account there are 3 sources (Traditional, Roth, After-Tax). The after-tax is only about 5k of which about 2k is contributions and 3k is earnings. The after-tax is a small portion of the whole 401k. I called into Schwab to try and r...

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Another vote for moving to a tax free state for a few years. I would hire a tax attorney to make sure you do everything right so California can't come after you for the taxes. FIRE for a few years and go back to work later if you'd like since it sounds like finding jobs won't be difficult. Californi...

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You live in a 650k house and you're asking if you can afford a $1M house? Does the $2100 include property taxes and insurance? How much more in taxes is the new house? Assuming your job really is that stable and you have the proper insurances (life, disability, etc), then yes you can afford it. Shou...

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Isn't this thread full of selection bias? People who have a lot of downtime at work are much more likely to post on here. People who have no downtime can't post during business hours. Presumably they get home from work and are busy doing other things as well. Whereas people with downtime during the ...

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This same wash sale situation just happened to me. 7/12 Bought VTSAX at $74.39 (Lot 1) 8/11 Bought VTSAX at $72.47 (Lot 2) 8/15 Exchanged both of the above lots for VLCAX and VSMAX in a 87/13% ratio. VTSAX was exchange at a price of $70.50. I think the computer sold 87% of the 2 lots at the same tim...

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Love the personal excitement factor. We should require that on all job decision posts. I've always created a matrix of the different aspects of the jobs then scored them 1-10. I'd suggest trying that. List the things that are important to you such as compensation, career growth, excitement, location...

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Don't provide any advice to her unless she asks your opinion. Even then I would just talk through the pros and cons of each and not try to influence her decision. Hopefully she picks whichever job gives her the best experience to set her up for her next job. That's probably hard to know and is a lot...

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Always good to see! Anyone know if they're planning to lower the equivalent mutual funds as well? I see VTSAX still at .04 for example.

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You’re a CPA? Then perhaps you should not use your experience to pass judgment on the difficulty of the test? No, I am neither CPA or attorney, and do not possess an accounting, finance, or law degree. For what it's worth, my fall/winter "on a whim" project will be to qualify for and sit for the CP...

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I'm about the same age as you and just had to make this decision. First, see which 401k has better investing options and consider all fees. You don't have to roll anything over. I left my old 401k for 10 years and just recently rolled over for simplicity. I chose to roll over both traditional 401k a...

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Aren't there going to be a lot more sellers as baby boomers retire and start living off their investments? I also think this will impact the supply of workers, reducing unemployment and making it harder to fill jobs. Therefore increasing wages. If companies have to pay more, their expenses rise and ...

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To revise my original question, I probably would do 100% stock. I think it'd be wise to have 5 years living expenses in stable value money, and then 100% stocks for all remainder. That way, I have enough living expenses to weather almost all of the possible downturns and stay the course until the u...

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I finally paid off my mortgage today! First time in my life that I am completely debt free :) Thanks to everyone on this board who have been a great resource along the way. Congrats fittan! This is a total coincidence but I paid off my mortgage today as well! I had been planning to do it this month...

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It's much better to finish at the top of your class at a state school than middle at a top tier school. I went to Notre Dame and wouldn't recommend their law school. South Bend is a college town but is very focused on undergrad and grad student life is a very different experience. You mentioned warm...

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Yes i have some wash sales, which I presume is why the software listed out every transaction. The rounding makes it so I have about $5 less in losses than the 1099-B says. However, I'm above $3,000 in losses so I think the only impact is my carry forward losses are just less for next year. I'm hopin...

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I used H&R block to automatically populate the 100+ etf sales my robo executed last year (since have closed this account thankfully) and it put each sale into form 8949 and rounded each to the nearest dollar. When I look at the totals on my tax forms, it doesn't match the 1099-B totals. It's off by ...

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Incredibly sad day. Thank you Jack for everything you did for the ordinary investor. Your impact on the world is only surpassed by your character. May we all try to live up to your values and pay your service forward!

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Is the self reporting something that is only impacted by year end dividends? If you own a fund for less than 60 days and receive a qualified dividend in one of ther first 3 quarters, does vanguard automatically report that as non-qualified for you since they know that you owned it less than 60 days?

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Seems like something that can easily be missed if somebody is trading and isn't aware of the 60 day rule. I imagine many people don't report this because they just don't know?

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I just opened a vanguard account in early November and bought total stock market and total international on 11/6 and 12/3. With my incredible market timing I'd now like to harvest losses. I believe there is a dividend payout on 12/20. When should i harvest losses? I'm planning to buy large and small...

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The company is a private company so there isn't any stock involved. I really need to do a better job of giving the details from the beginning! I agree though that if the company wanted to get their management to have some "skin in the game" that they'd require at least a 5 year distribution period. ...

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My wife met with the executive comp HR person and has confirmed that the distribution is a one-time election for all future years of deferred comp. The good news though is that she has until the first contribution into the account to decide. Since we're not deferring comp in 2019, we'll have until t...

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I might not be describing the annual payout options well enough. These also start after termination. So a 10 year annual payout begins 30 days after termination. So the lump sum gets you the money the fastest. I agree that chances are decent that she leaves for a higher paying job and we get hit wit...

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Can't opt out. They are giving her money each year into the NQDC account that she wouldn't have gotten if she was in a lower position. If she were closer to retirement I might lean towards a 5 year annual distribution but since she's so young I'm leaning towards immediate lump sum. If she takes anot...

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Also the company requires you to make this distribution election within the first 30 days of her new job. She started last month. I just found this out recently and the deadline is this Friday.

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Lets assume the mandatory company contribution is about 10k a year for her current role. Future promotions may greatly increase the company contribution. We're not planning on deferring additional income from salary or bonus until we're closer to retirement or our tax bracket greatly increases due t...

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I should clarify that the account uses "measurement" funds. The plan is through fidelity and there are low cost index funds (S&P 500, Extended Market, Total International, Total Bond, Target Date, etc) that you choose to invest in. The investment is just to measure how much money the company will pa...

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DW just took a new job that has a Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation program (Section 409A). She has to make a one-time irrevocable choice on how she wants the funds distributed upon her termination from the employer. Her choices are lump sum (paid 30-60 days after termination) or annual distributi...

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First time buying H&R block on amazon. Anyone else having problems getting it to download on your PC? I tried 3 different computers and am wondering if something is wrong with Amazon. I click download and it just gets stuck after downloading a few percent.

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How does that differ from JTWROS? Or are you saying i should create a trust and title the account that way?

I don't have a trust right now. No children yet. How hard is it to transfer an existing brokerage account into a trust?

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I didn't realize you can't put a beneficiary on any joint account at vanguard. It sounds like TBE is the obvious choice due to additional creditor protections.

Planning to open the account today. Any other suggestions for opening an account?

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Long time forum reader and first post here. Excited to join this awesome community! I'm looking to open a taxable brokerage account with Vanguard and was looking for advice on how to title the account. DW and I live in Florida so I'm thinking Tenants By the Entirety might be a good option. How does ...

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