Above the Line
The tax decisions that quietly shape a retirement.
A monthly letter on the part of retirement planning that often gets less attention but could carry the most cost.
You did the hard part. You saved, you stayed disciplined, and you have the accounts to show for it. What you may not have seen is the other side of that work: what those accounts will cost to spend. The tax bill arrives in pieces, year by year, in an order many people never plan.
Over a thirty-year retirement that bill could be one of the largest unmanaged risks a household carries. Not the market. Tax. And most of it is decided in a handful of quiet choices made years before the money is touched.
Each newsletter issue takes one of those choices and works it through in plain language. Roth conversion timing. IRMAA. The widow's penalty. Required minimum distributions. Qualified charitable distributions. One decision, examined properly.
If you want a tip sheet, this is not it. If you want to think more clearly about the choices ahead, it is.
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