What would be the safest way to make your money last longer in retirement? Wouldn’t it be to reduce or eliminate your tax obligation? Stick around to the end of this blog and we’ll show you how to use a specially designed life insurance policy to reduce or eliminate your tax obligation and keep the government’s hands out of your retirement.
When people come to me with their yet-to-be-taxed retirement accounts: 401K’s or IRAs, they’re literally shocked as to how much taxes they’re on track to pay in retirement. The reason they’re shocked is that that’s not what they were told. They were told that they were going to be in a lower tax bracket in retirement. So let’s take a look at exactly what happens when you’re making contributions to your IRA, 401K, 403B, or your other qualified retirement accounts.
Basically, you’re putting a piece of your income into these accounts and you’re deferring the tax into the future. As your account grows and the interest accumulates, eventually you’ll have a large pile of money to use for your retirement. But what happens is, as that money is growing, so is your tax obligation. Here’s the key to utilizing specially designed life insurance to help supplement your retirement. We know what taxes we have the potential to avoid. We just don’t know what the rates are.
There are six potential taxes you could avoid by using these specially designed whole life insurance policies. That includes:
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- Federal income tax
- State income tax
- Social security offset tax
- There’ll be no increase in your Medicare premium
- In most states, you’re going to avoid probate and state inheritance tax.
So what would it look like and how would we proceed to move money from forever taxable in a qualified retirement account to never taxable in a specially designed whole life insurance policy? Basically, after age 59 and a half (so you could avoid the 10% penalty for withdrawals prior to age 59 and a half), we would start taking distributions to fund the annual premium on your life insurance policy.
The key questions you need to ask yourself are basically, do you think taxes are going up in the future? Do you think that with everything that’s going on in our country, and keep in mind we’re $30 trillion in debt, do you trust the government to do what’s in your best interest or what’s in their best interest? And if you think taxes have the potential to go up really high, here’s the question, do you want to pay those taxes? And I bet there’s not a lot of people that asked you that question. But the key is you have a choice. What choice will you make to make sure that your money lasts longer in retirement?
If you’d like help designing a specially designed whole life insurance policy for cash accumulation to help your retirement go further and keep the government off your payroll. Be sure to visit our website at tier1capital.com to get started today. Feel free to schedule your free strategy session. And remember, it’s not how much money you make, it’s how much money you keep that really matters.
