This Is What Really Happens When You Don’t Pay Your Taxes

The consequences for not paying your taxes have varied pretty wildly over the last several decades in the United States. Tax evaders were once literally be incarcerated for fairly low level tax delinquencies, but on the other end of the spectrum, hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt are sometimes just wiped clean if they’re not collected within a 10 year statute of limitations.

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7 Proposed Changes to IRA Accounts and How They Could Alter Your Retirement Plan

The major problem with this proposal is that we’re no longer talking about the mega-wealthy here, this hurts middle class investors who don’t make the majority of their earnings from investments but want access to private equity. The vast majority of Regulation D (private equity, rather than public stock) offerings are made to accredited investors. Further, these investments are typically not highly liquid…

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5 Tax-Sheltered Investments That You Didn’t Know About

Most casual investors aren’t aware that they could own real estate in an IRA, HSA and even some 401Ks. Not just the ability to access real estate through REITS, IRAs can actually hold tangible rental real estate. Though typically riskier (and demanding more time and expertise) than a broadly diversified mutual fund portfolio, owning rental properties, private equity, or even a business within your retirement accounts is a secret that…

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