Can I Really Have A Tax Free Retirement?

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CAN I REALLY

HAVE A TAX-FREE
RETIREMENT?

WADE HICKS

CAN I REALLY HAVE A TAX-FREE RETIREMENT?

Can you really have a tax-free retirement?


Simply put, yes you can! Its all in the vehicle in
which you begin your retirement savings.
People get so caught up in the daunting
decision of which account to use for
retirement: 401(k)s, Roth IRAs, SEPs, Simple
IRAs, and more. All these accounts can help
you save similarly. The distinction lies in the
tax codes the government has created for each.
So which one will give you a tax-free
retirement? Technically, the Roth IRA is the
only retirement savings account that can do
that. However, its status as a tax-free account
means youre taxed on your contributions
NOW, and youre limited as to how much you
can contribute each year.
There are alternatives to reaching your
retirement without paying a huge chunk of
your savings to the government, though. Many
people arent aware of the 7701 tax code which
states that life insurance benefits to an
individual are tax-exempt. This opportunity
means there are ways to accumulate retirement
funds without the opportunity to lose principal
and have your income distributed in a tax-free
fashion.
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An Index Universal Life (IUL) policy


guarantees that you never lose your principal
and captures a portion or all of the market
gains. You can have a life insurance policy with
a flexible premium that will allow you to
overfund, where the excess money goes into a
bucket that earns interest based on an index.
Meanwhile, youre protecting your family in
case anything happens to you.
If you utilized the S&P Index and averaged
7.5% on your excess, after-tax monies for the
next thirty years, what kind of gain would you
have? What makes this plan even more
appealing is the promise that if the S&P has a
losing year, you wont. If it has a winning year,
you do. Think about the power of compound
interest and never having a losing year during
your accumulation phase!

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Your distribution phase determines whether


you have a tax-free retirement. By taking a loan
against your cash value after you are no longer
contributing, you cannot be taxed. The money
you contributed is after tax. When
you take distributions, you do so in the form of
a loan. When you buy a new car are you taxed
on the loan? You may have an excise or luxury
tax, but the government cannot tax the loan

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you took out to get the car. This strategy can be


used annually with the right planning.
Visit your financial planner today to set up an
IUL policy for your long-term financial
strategies. Other benefits of this plan include
not waiting until 5912 to take out money,
never losing your principal, more leverage for
more gains, protection of your family, and
more.

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Fidelity Financial Co., LLC


215 S. 88th Street
Omaha, NE 68114
Mark T. Houston
(402) 880-7008
[email protected]

WWW.FIDFIN.CO

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