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    IRA Tax Breaks Could Prove Boon to Seniors

    By Young Insurance | Archives, Health & Life | Comments are Closed | 15 April, 2013 | 0

    MuSeniorHealthyLivingch fuss was made over the ongoing Capitol Hill negotiations surrounding the so-called “fiscal cliff” — and yet, for many Americans, the eventual resolutions of the fiscal cliff talks remain somewhat ambiguous. According to a recent CBS News report, however, one of the provisions of the fiscal cliff legislation could prove beneficial to seniors, allowing them to receive tax breaks by contributing part of their IRAs to charitable organizations.
    “The American Taxpayer Relief Act just reinstated a provision that allows those taking required minimum distributions from IRAs (which is required starting April following the year in which an individual turns age 70 1/2) to save taxes while donating up to $100,000 to a qualified charity,” comments financial planner Randy Siller, explaining this legislation in his new press statement. “The law was reinstated for 2012 and 2013.”
    Continues Siller, “The reinstatement for 2012 allows distributions made in December 2012 to be sent as a cash contribution to a qualified charity by January 31, 2013. For 2013, the normal method of having the IRA custodian send a certain sum directly to the charity should be used.”
    For many individuals, Randy Siller says, this provision could prove very advantageous. “The advantage to what is known as a ‘Charitable IRA Rollover’ is that the amount is not included in a taxpayer’s Adjusted Gross Income (AGI). Now some might be thinking that, if they don’t use this approach they could simply include the amount distributed from the IRA in their income and then, by contributing that amount to charity, obtain an offsetting itemized deduction. So why does excluding it from the taxpayer’s AGI save money?”
    The answer to this question, Siller says, depends on the taxpayer’s unique situation. There are three scenarios in which taking advantage of this legal provision makes sense. “First, under the new tax law, there are limitations on personal exemptions and itemized deductions for couples with income above $300,000 and singles above $250,000. So, if including the distribution in income would put you over the limit, the Charitable IRA Rollover would save you taxes,” explains Siller. “If you are already over the limit, then you would not get a full charitable deduction, in which case the Charitable IRA Rollover could save substantial taxes.”
    Siller highlights a second scenario in which the Rollover makes sense. “For those who take the standard deduction, as it is larger than the total of their itemized deductions, the Charitable IRA Rollover makes sense because there will be no offsetting charitable deduction if the Rollover approach is not taken.”
    Siller points to one further scenario. “Finally, by not including the distribution, in income it may lower the amount of taxable Social Security benefits,” he remarks.
    Siller notes that the the implication of this legislation is simple. “For many taxpayers the reinstatement of the Charitable IRA rollover will provide a welcome benefit,” he said.

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