Andy talks about the basics of what to know regarding taxes and tax planning in retirement. Topics discussed include:

• What sources of income are taxable vs non-taxable
• Required Minimum Distributions ("RMDs") from both your own accounts and inherited accounts
• How to pay taxes in retirement: withholdings vs making estimated payments
• Gifting tax-efficiently
• Making charitable donations tax-efficiently
• Overview of common long-term tax planning strategies:
  • Delaying Social Security and distributing from pre-tax accounts in the interim
  • Roth conversions
  • Tax loss and tax gain harvesting
  • Asset "location" of which investments to hold in which account types

To send Andy questions to be addressed on future Q&A episodes, email andy@andypanko.com

Links in this episode:

• The Rock Retirement Club - here

• My company newsletter - Retirement Planning Insights
• Facebook group - Retirement Planning Education (formerly Taxes in Retirement)
• YouTube channel - Retirement Planning Education (formerly Retirement Planning Demystified)
• Retirement Planning Education website - www.RetirementPlanningEducation.com

Special edition episode in which Andy shares his views on whether the below 12 rules of thumb are accurate or not:

1. You should always contribute at least enough to your employer plan (like a 401(k)) to get the full employer match
2. You shouldn't help your kids pay for college if it means shorting your own financial security in retirement
3. You need at least $X million (where $X can be whatever amount someone wants to say) of savings to retire
4. In retirement, expect to need 80% of whatever your pre-retirement income was each year
5. The 4% "rule" is a good tool for determining how much of a portfolio someone can distribution each year in retirement
6. Your target stock allocation percentage should be 100 minus your age
7. You should pay off your mortgage before retiring
8. The rule of 72 is a good tool to tell how long it will take to double your investment
9. You should have an emergency fund of cash equal to three to six months of expenses
10. Permanent life insurance should be avoided; only use term life insurance
11. The owner of a large investment advisory firm says, "I hate annuities and you should too"
12. That same person also says of his firm, "we do better when you do better"

To send Andy questions to be addressed on future Q&A episodes, email andy@andypanko.com

Links in this episode:

• My podcast about the 4% "rule" - here

• My company newsletter - Retirement Planning Insights
• Facebook group - Retirement Planning Education (formerly Taxes in Retirement)
• YouTube channel - Retirement Planning Education (formerly Retirement Planning Demystified)
• Retirement Planning Education website - www.RetirementPlanningEducation.com

Listener Q&A where Andy talks about:

• How to keep track of Roth IRA contributions ( 6:45 )
• Considering getting employer-sponsored health insurance to supplement Medicare ( 12:15 )
• What to do with money from an RMD that you don't actually need ( 16:48 )
• Understanding the capital gain exclusion on selling your primary residence ( 19:58 )
• How to determine how much you can rent out a rental property for, and how to screen for tenants ( 23:42 )
• How to distribute from a portfolio that includes total bond market funds as its fixed income allocation ( 28:10 )
• Rolling over up to $35k of unused 529 funds into a Roth IRA ( 34:28 )

To send Andy questions to be addressed on future Q&A episodes, email andy@andypanko.com

Links in this episode:

• The Boomer Benefits Facebook group - here
• My podcast about the primary residence sale capital gain exclusion - here
• TransUnion SmartMove website - here

• My company newsletter - Retirement Planning Insights
• Facebook group - Retirement Planning Education (formerly Taxes in Retirement)
• YouTube channel - Retirement Planning Education (formerly Retirement Planning Demystified)
• Retirement Planning Education website - www.RetirementPlanningEducation.com