Question

Your customer, age 60, is retired and living at home with a fully paid-off mortgage. Her portfolio contains growth stocks and high-quality bonds, and she is a long-time investor and comfortable with moderate risk. Her objective is a moderate level of current income to supplement her corporate pension plan distributions and the earnings from her traditional IRA. How are the distributions taxed from her IRA

Answer 1

Since this person is 60 years old, she will only pay normal income taxes fro any distributions that she receives from her IRA account.

Step-by-step explanation:

Contributions to a traditional IRA account are tax exempt up to a certain limit. In other words, the money that this client contributed to her IRA account reduced her taxable income. Now that she is retired and starting to receive distributions from her IRA account, she will need to pay income taxes for the money that she receives.

A Roth IRA account works differently, since the contributions are not tax exempt, but the distributions are.