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- Thu Mar 29, 2018 11:10 am
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Reduce future RMD, Manage Retirement Income and Taxes
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1195
Re: Reduce future RMD, Manage Retirement Income and Taxes
Plan A: - Reduce risk level of overall portfolio, Wider rebalancing bands to just control risk level, not grow principal by buying low/selling high Not sure what this means, not rebalancing as often would seem to increase risk. - Moderate future growth of IRAs and RMD by concentrating taxable bonds...
- Wed Mar 28, 2018 8:28 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Reduce future RMD, Manage Retirement Income and Taxes
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1195
Re: Reduce future RMD, Manage Retirement Income and Taxes
I think plan A is reasonable. A couple other considerations that may or may not be relevant to your situation. 1. Set up contingent beneficiaries for the bigger IRA. (This supposes that there are children to whom one would want to bequeath all or part of an IRA.) Leave instructions for surviving sp...
- Wed Mar 28, 2018 7:23 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Reduce future RMD, Manage Retirement Income and Taxes
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1195
Reduce future RMD, Manage Retirement Income and Taxes
Retirement strategy up here for comments: Background: - Both spouses older than 60 yrs. - One, older spouse retired, second spouse would enjoy working for another 4 years. Both have IRAs. - The bigger IRA RMD 4 yrs away, smaller IRA RMD 10 years away. - Sufficient funds in bigger IRA to pay for annu...
- Tue Mar 27, 2018 8:40 pm
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: Tax Efficient Placement of ETFs
- Replies: 7
- Views: 927
Re: Tax Efficient Placement of ETFs
If one was to calculate using your and Morningstar methods, the numbers will be different. However, the rank order should remain the same. Am I correct? I don't think you are correct. So much depends on one's personal taxes and morningstar makes a big assumption about that which does not apply to t...
- Tue Mar 27, 2018 6:39 pm
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: Tax Efficient Placement of ETFs
- Replies: 7
- Views: 927
Re: Tax Efficient Placement of ETFs
I'm still waiting for Morningstar to explain how their tax cost ratios for VTSAX and VTI can both be simultaneously correct considering that the two share classes have identical stakes in the underlying fund. In the meantime, I use my own calcuations . Thank you, triceratop. Your calculations are u...
- Mon Mar 26, 2018 11:48 pm
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: Tax Efficient Placement of ETFs
- Replies: 7
- Views: 927
Tax Efficient Placement of ETFs
To decide tax efficient place for certain ETFs in my tax deferred and taxable accounts, I looked at their Tax Cost ratios on Morningstar. I found that international stock index ETFs are better than, but not too much better than BND. The rank order is consistent with the wiki, but I thought I will po...
- Sat Mar 24, 2018 3:45 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Foreign Tax Carryover Statement
- Replies: 4
- Views: 339
Re: Foreign Tax Carryover Statement
Thank you, Wagnerjb!
- Fri Mar 23, 2018 5:31 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Accountant mistake? Foreign Tax Carryover
- Replies: 2
- Views: 280
Re: Accountant mistake? Foreign Tax Carryover
I checked my 2016 and earlier returns prepared by an accountant. In all those years, he had listed carryover FTC numbers at the end of the Fed return printout he gave me, but there was no entry on line 10, Form 1116 and AMT 1116. Why he did not use CO, which I think might have given me a bigger ref...
- Fri Mar 23, 2018 2:43 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Accountant mistake? Foreign Tax Carryover
- Replies: 2
- Views: 280
Accountant mistake? Foreign Tax Carryover
I checked my 2016 and earlier returns prepared by an accountant. In all those years, he had listed carryover FTC numbers at the end of the Fed return printout he gave me, but there was no entry on line 10, Form 1116 and AMT 1116. Why he did not use CO, which I think might have given me a bigger refu...
- Fri Mar 23, 2018 11:43 am
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Foreign Tax Carryover Statement
- Replies: 4
- Views: 339
Re: Foreign Tax Carryover Statement
I don't fully understand your questions, but: You might have had a "regular tax" carryover statement and an "AMT" carryover statement. Or you may have a carryover statement that shows what credits are available for this year, and another carryover statement showing what credits are available for ne...
- Thu Mar 22, 2018 8:49 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Foreign Tax Carryover Statement
- Replies: 4
- Views: 339
Foreign Tax Carryover Statement
First year using TurboTax. Until now, the tax accountant has two pages of Foreign Tax Carryover Statement. Pages 1 and 2 have the same title, but numbers are different, page 2 numbers are higher. He says he had used Simplified Method for foreign tax credit. I paid AMT each year. My foreign tax paid ...
- Thu Mar 15, 2018 7:05 pm
- Forum: Local Chapters and Bogleheads Community
- Topic: [Virtual online chapter - Master thread]
- Replies: 78
- Views: 11898
Re: [Virtual online chapter - Master thread]
I attended the virtual meeting, my first one on 3/13, and found it really useful! THANKS to the organizers and presenter!
- Mon Mar 12, 2018 6:45 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: TurboTax Form 1116 Foreign Tax Credit
- Replies: 3
- Views: 412
Re: TurboTax Form 1116 Foreign Tax Credit
Wonderful! Thanks to both replies!
- Mon Mar 12, 2018 2:16 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: TurboTax Form 1116 Foreign Tax Credit
- Replies: 3
- Views: 412
TurboTax Form 1116 Foreign Tax Credit
Form 1116 (regular) shows lower foreign tax credit than AMT Form 1116. Why does TurboTax use the smaller amount on 1040 line 48?
- Thu Mar 08, 2018 1:22 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: TurboTax Premier 2017 - First year DIY Taxes
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1458
Re: TurboTax Premier 2017 - First year DIY Taxes
Last year, my accountant filled out regular Form 1116 and also AMT Form 1116 for foreign tax of $1526 paid on foreign income of $ 11293. Since he filled both regular and AMT 1116 forms, I suppose that he did not use the "simplified method". I called the accountant 2-3 times, but he is not responding...
- Wed Mar 07, 2018 2:13 pm
- Forum: Local Chapters and Bogleheads Community
- Topic: [Virtual online chapter - Master thread]
- Replies: 78
- Views: 11898
Re: [Virtual online chapter - Master thread]
I would like to join virtual discussions. I just emailed a request to the email address given. Do I need to do more?
- Mon Mar 05, 2018 2:10 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Foreign Tax AMT Limit - Did my Accountant use Simplified Method or not?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 458
Re: Foreign Tax AMT Limit - Did my Accountant use Simplified Method or not?
sounds correct about the simplified method not being used. About line 30 being the same on both forms........what was the foreign tax paid? Perhaps the same number? Line Foreign tax paid on both regular F1116 and AMT F1116 was the same = $1526. Remember the FTC compares 2 numbers.....the amount of ...
- Mon Mar 05, 2018 1:11 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Foreign Tax AMT Limit - Did my Accountant use Simplified Method or not?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 458
Re: Foreign Tax AMT Limit - Did my Accountant use Simplified Method or not?
from instructions for F6251 p13/14 https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i6251.pdf Is line 17 on both forms the same? That would suggest simplified limitation election was used. The forms don't necessarily give the same results even if this election was used. "Simplified Limitation Election You may elect...
- Mon Mar 05, 2018 12:02 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Foreign Tax AMT Limit - Did my Accountant use Simplified Method or not?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 458
- Sun Mar 04, 2018 7:29 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Foreign Tax AMT Limit - Did my Accountant use Simplified Method or not?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 458
Foreign Tax AMT Limit - Did my Accountant use Simplified Method or not?
First year doing own taxes using TurboTax. Last year (and in the past), the accountant filled out regular Form 1116 and also AMT Form 1116 for foreign tax of ~11300. Since he filled both 1116 forms, I suppose that he did not use simplified method. This year, I need to be consistent with the past, he...
- Sat Mar 03, 2018 6:33 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: What will you do with your tax refund?
- Replies: 87
- Views: 5741
Re: What will you do with your tax refund?
We always apply ours toward estimated taxes so never receive a penny in cash or our accounts. Most times the tax is pretty close to what we’ve paid in estimated taxes but sometimes it’s pretty far off due to fluctuating income and dividends. State refund of 2017 will raise 2018 Fed taxable income. ...
- Sat Mar 03, 2018 6:04 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: What will you do with your tax refund?
- Replies: 87
- Views: 5741
Re: What will you do with your tax refund?
State refund of 2017 will raise 2018 Fed taxable income. If you apply 2017 state tax refund to 2018 state tax, you would not receive refund amount, it will sit in state account. Does that lower 2018 FED taxable income?
- Sat Mar 03, 2018 5:22 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Overpaid 2017 Estimated Tax - Big Refund!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 895
Overpaid 2017 Estimated Tax - Big Refund!
California resident: I expected to earn good income from self-employment during 2017, like the years before, but it dropped in 2017. :annoyed Made estimated tax payments each quarter based on past income trend. Moreover, we made significant donations to our Donor Advised Fund in 2017. Our 2017 tax r...
- Sat Mar 03, 2018 2:03 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Overpaying 2017 State Income Taxes to maximize 2017 federal SALT deduction
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2791
Re: Overpaying 2017 State Income Taxes to maximize 2017 federal SALT deduction
California resident I expected to earn good income from self-employment during 2017, as I did in the previous three years, 2014 to 2016. Accordingly, I had calculated 2017 estimated tax payments for both Fed and State. I never picked up great income from self-employment. However, I continued to make...
- Thu Feb 15, 2018 10:48 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Using DASHLANE Password Manager
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1248
Re: Using DASHLANE Password Manager
Completely new to password managers. Will use Dashlane on iMac and PC. I do not want to store my passwords in the cloud, only on my computer/s. I read that Free vesrion Dashlane can be used on only one device? Does that mean I can not use it on both iMac and PC? Thanks.
- Sat Jan 27, 2018 9:50 pm
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: Dalio says bonds have entered a bear market
- Replies: 96
- Views: 9680
Re: Dalio says bonds have entered a bear market
No one knows the future of markets and all predictions are best taken as a grain of salt. However, Ray Dalio's comments and point of view are interesting. www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-24/billionaire-dalio-says-bond-market-has-moved-into-bear-phase yeah buying opportunity for bonds is com...
- Sat Jan 27, 2018 8:10 pm
- Forum: Investing - Help with Personal Investments
- Topic: "Muni Bonds Time Bomb" Barron's
- Replies: 47
- Views: 5068
"Muni Bonds Time Bomb" Barron's
Barron's has this article: https://www.barrons.com/articles/the-ticking-time-bomb-in-the-municipal-bond-market-1517020424 In case you hit the paywall, here is the central argument: “We are increasingly wary of high pension exposure, especially among state and local credits,” the Barclays muni-resear...
- Sat Jan 27, 2018 7:30 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Missing cost basis - stock option shares
- Replies: 8
- Views: 522
Re: Missing cost basis - stock option shares
I have a very similar problem. In the late 70's, early 80's I received shares through an ESOP. I cannot find any of my records going back that far. Stocks have been transferred through multiple brokerages and I have no idea of cost basis. I plan to hold onto them until I'm gone at which point they ...
- Sat Jan 27, 2018 7:28 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Missing cost basis - stock option shares
- Replies: 8
- Views: 522
Re: Missing cost basis - stock option shares
Do you make charitable donations? Are you still itemizing? I had a few shares with same problem and rather that deal with the accounting uncertainties, I donated them to DAF, got the tax writeoff for the fair market value and didn't have to worry about the cost basis. https://www.fidelitycharitable...
- Sat Jan 27, 2018 6:21 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Missing cost basis - stock option shares
- Replies: 8
- Views: 522
Re: Missing cost basis - stock option shares
Eventually, when I sell those shares, what do I need to do to report cost basis? How does the IRS determine validity of numbers? The IRS will accept $0 as the cost basis. If you want to provide a higher basis, you should have some reasonable justification for it. Do you have any notes in a tax fold...
- Fri Jan 26, 2018 6:25 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Missing cost basis - stock option shares
- Replies: 8
- Views: 522
Missing cost basis - stock option shares
Long time ago, I had received a few shares from employer's stock options. The company was acquired by another company, and the site closed. I had received a few shares from employer's stock options. The shares are so old that I do not have records of the stock grant and cost. When the shares were tr...
- Thu Jan 18, 2018 12:07 pm
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: Rebalancing in last 12 months
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1490
Re: Rebalancing in last 12 months
I just set my contributions to all go to bond funds. That didn't keep up with the crazy stock climb, so I just did my rebalance in Dec. Still 100% contributions buying bonds and I hope they still don't keep up and I need to do an out of cycle rebalance into bonds (and not the other way around :mrgr...
- Thu Jan 18, 2018 12:33 am
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: Rebalancing in last 12 months
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1490
Rebalancing in last 12 months
As the stock markets have climbed rapidly, how many times did you rebalance during the 12 months?
Or, did you wait for your annual rebalancing date?
Do you go strictly by pre-set rebalancing bands? - or approximately in a range around your rebalancing trigger?
Or, did you wait for your annual rebalancing date?
Do you go strictly by pre-set rebalancing bands? - or approximately in a range around your rebalancing trigger?
- Wed Jan 17, 2018 6:37 pm
- Forum: Investing - Help with Personal Investments
- Topic: Make me feel good about my bond allocation
- Replies: 46
- Views: 5222
- Wed Jan 03, 2018 9:25 pm
- Forum: Investing - Help with Personal Investments
- Topic: California - Intermediate Muni Bonds - effect of capital gains tax
- Replies: 7
- Views: 898
Re: California - Intermediate Muni Bonds - effect of capital gains tax
If you definitely will not need the money back in 2 years, your savings after 2 years would be higher, as it seems that you live frugally; appropriate for the BH philosophy. Looks like you should have the flexibility of not selling the CA muni fund and use some of your savings or CD money for down p...
- Wed Jan 03, 2018 9:41 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: TurboTax Premier 2017 - First year DIY Taxes
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1458
Re: TurboTax Premier 2017 - First year DIY Taxes
how much of last year’s data from accountant’s will i have to enter into TT 2017 manually? Is there no way to get That data from pdf file or something? Thanks.
- Tue Jan 02, 2018 2:20 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: TurboTax Premier 2017 - First year DIY Taxes
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1458
TurboTax Premier 2017 - First year DIY Taxes
First year to do DIY taxes using TT. - Looks like Costco sells only CD version? Need to work taxes on both a Mac and a PC. New Mac has no disc drive. If I buy CD version, I can not work on Mac. (one Costco review complains about this) - If I buy online version, does software license allow to downloa...
- Mon Jan 01, 2018 12:47 pm
- Forum: Investing - Help with Personal Investments
- Topic: Proceeds from RE sale go where for retirement?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 732
Re: Proceeds from RE sale go where for retirement?
Have you previously decided on an overall allocation plan for your investable assets (usually referred to on this forum for short as "AA" = "asset allocation")? The standard "minimal" decisions we make here are (1) % of stocks versus fixed income in general (2) within your stocks, % of domestic ver...
- Mon Jan 01, 2018 12:40 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Side gig, 1099 strategy
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2265
Re: Side gig, 1099 strategy
Spirit Rider,
Thank you for explaining this so clearly!
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Thank you for explaining this so clearly!
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- Sun Dec 31, 2017 2:21 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: TurboTax Deluxe Online for 2017
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2455
Re: TurboTax Deluxe Online for 2017
I have used an accountant for taxes in the past, but serious about switching to DIY using TurboTax (or another software, if easier/more clear to use). I understand that TurboTax can online import W-2 and year-end tax statements from brokerages like Schwab and Vanguard. Correct? What about previous y...
- Sun Dec 31, 2017 1:43 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Side gig, 1099 strategy
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2265
Re: Side gig, 1099 strategy
[*]Employer contributions limited to a 25% employer non-elective contribution*. *For the self-employed employer contribution, the self-employed contribution rate of net self-employment income = plan contribution rate / (1.00 + plan contribution rate). E.g. 0.25 / (1.00 + 0.25) = 0.20 or 20% of net ...
- Thu Dec 28, 2017 1:30 pm
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: when S&P sectors are recharacterized
- Replies: 2
- Views: 223
when S&P sectors are recharacterized
There is talk of changes to technology sector composition since some companies like FB and GOOG now are more communications companies than pure tech. What happens in such a case? Nothing as far as someone holding the whole market or S&P 500 fund, but many investors hold sector funds. Say if someone ...
- Wed Dec 27, 2017 1:17 pm
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: More bonds now to rebalance?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1388
Re: More bonds now to rebalance?
With the stock market's rise, the asset allocations made couple of years ago now must be out-of-whack for many. I wonder whether you are now buying more bond funds for rebalancing, in spite of the rising rates? If they had been rebalancing along the way, they wouldn't be out-of-whack, right? :happy...
- Wed Dec 27, 2017 12:55 pm
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: More bonds now to rebalance?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1388
Re: More bonds now to rebalance?
Are you really saying people should change their asset allocation plan based on a presumption that interest rates, or certain interest rates, are rising/are going to rise now/soon/sometime? I would not make investment decisions that way. dbr, Thanks. It is implicit in "asset allocations made couple...
- Tue Dec 26, 2017 10:50 pm
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: More bonds now to rebalance?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1388
More bonds now to rebalance?
With the stock market's rise, the asset allocations made couple of years ago now must be out-of-whack for many.
I wonder whether you are now buying more bond funds for rebalancing, in spite of the rising rates?
I wonder whether you are now buying more bond funds for rebalancing, in spite of the rising rates?
- Tue Dec 26, 2017 8:51 pm
- Forum: Investing - Help with Personal Investments
- Topic: Affect of Rising Interest Rates on Vanguard Total Bond Index
- Replies: 38
- Views: 6230
Re: Affect of Rising Interest Rates on Vanguard Total Bond Index
nisiprius, Thank you for the amazing clarity and detailed explanation of the hidden facts! Always a pleasure to lean from your posts! Happy New Year to you, and all! With the stock market rise, the allocations made couple of years ago are now out-of-whack. I wonder whether members are now making reb...
- Sat Dec 23, 2017 9:19 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Donor Advised Fund - Family Trust or my name?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1044
Re: Donor Advised Fund - Family Trust or my name?
This link explains what a 'successor' is. https://www.nptrust.org/donor-advised-funds/faq#can-my-children-be-involved-with-my-donor-advised-fund-account If individuals, not charities, are named as successors - When the original person setting up a DAF dies, the successors inherit the account, can ei...
- Sat Dec 23, 2017 2:41 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Donor Advised Fund - Family Trust or my name?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1044
Donor Advised Fund - Family Trust or my name?
I have a family trust, with both spouses as co-trustees, and the kids as inheritors. Should I open a new a donor advised fund for 2017 deduction with the Trust name or two spouses' names or with a 'cause' name like 'education'? Also, should kids be the beneficiaries as with my IRA, or the family tru...
- Tue Dec 19, 2017 5:41 pm
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: Evolution of the S&P 500 Composition
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2135
Re: Evolution of the S&P 500 Composition
Thank you, JoMoney. I had never heard of that search engine, but will try it next time.
- Sun Dec 17, 2017 4:22 pm
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: Evolution of the S&P 500 Composition
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2135
Re: Evolution of the S&P 500 Composition
How do you find the version with no paywall?JoMoney wrote: ↑Sun Dec 17, 2017 2:29 pm
I hit a paywall at that link, here's one that doesn't seem to have one http://www.cetusnews.com/business/Reinv ... 2xf0Z.html