Timothy Sumer

In this week's Hidden Wealth Reviews, I teach what you can do to remove yourself from the waste of Washington and the Wall Street whipsaw. This week, the Federal Reserve hinted they wouldn't raise interest rates. The market rallied in anticipation of this announcement. When the actual announcement was made, the market dropped, giving back three times the gains it had just made, all due to the wording used in Fed Chairman Powell's statement. If you're within five years or less of retirement or if you're just tying to get better through retirement, I want to teach you how to avoid the whims of Wall Street and the Washington tax waste. To learn how, register now for this coming Tuesday's Tax Protecting Your Retirement webinar. I read a recent article in Forbes that revealed how many people with significant IRA assets are leaving a lot of money on the table by letting the IRS and Congress determine their IRA strategies. The article discussed the importa...

In this week's Hidden Wealth Reviews, I share a new meaning for the acronym, IRA, "Influenced Retirement Attack!" This comes from an Article in Forbes, which discusses how even new born babies could get hit with taxes from an IRA as a result of new IRS "guidance." This guidance is more like an attack; an attack influenced by the administration's need to collect more tax by having the IRS simply change the rules. In 2019, the SECURE Act changed the rules about stretching IRAs. Stretch IRAs allowed those who inherited an IRA to extend the distribution of the funds (and the payment of taxes on those funds) across their lifetime. Post SECURE Act, you only have 10 years to liquidate a non-spouse inherited IRA. Many people are concerned about this. They believe that, if they leave money, they want to leave it to someone other than the IRS. Don't be fooled by the promise that those making less than $400,000 a year will not see a tax increase. The no...