Tag: 401k
These accounts must be more portable. When participants change jobs, they have four options with regard to their 401(k) assets: (1) leave balances in the previous employer’s plan; (2) roll over balances to the new employer’s plan; (3) roll over balances to an Individual Retirement Account (IRA); or (4) cash out. In some cases, t…
Changes to the taxation of capital income can have a big effect. Retirement saving in typical employer plans – both defined benefit pension and 401(k) plans – is tax advantaged because the government taxes neither the original contribution nor the investment returns until they are withdrawn as benefits at retirement. If the saving were don…
