If you've built savings by contributing to a pretax retirement account, you will generally be required to begin taking ...

Anyone with a tax-deferred retirement account must understand required minimum distributions (RMDs).

Understand when and how to calculate RMDs and avoid stiff penalties from your tax-deferred IRA.

One inevitability of tax-deferred retirement accounts is that you can't defer the tax payments forever. Retirees must begin ...

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Retirement accounts like the 401(k), 403(b), and traditional IRA are tax-deferred, meaning you get a tax break upfront (the ability to deduct contributions from your taxable income), but you must ...

Required minimum distributions, or RMDs, are the amounts that must be withdrawn each year from specific retirement plan accounts upon reaching the required minimum distribution age. These mandatory ...

Once you’re 73 years old, the IRS requires you to take taxable distributions from most retirement accounts. There’s a formula that determines your particular minimum withdrawal. Fortunately, you’ve ...

Once you reach the age of 73, the IRS requires you to make minimum annual distributions from non-Roth retirement accounts. You must calculate your own RMD based on the value of your ordinary IRAs as ...