With many retirement accounts in the tank this year, presidential candidates and other lawmakers have called for all sorts of measures aimed at helping people pick up the pieces of their broken [...]
IF your retirement assets took a beating in the recent stock market decline, converting a traditional I.R.A. to a Roth I.R.A. may be one of the best tax strategies this year. When you do the [...]
UNCERTAINTY about future tax rates is complicating estate planning at a time when the economic downturn offers significant opportunities. Most methods of saving estate taxes reduce a person’s net [...]