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The self-employment tax math behind the S-Corp choice, the reasonable salary you can't skip, and when the compliance cost eats the savings.
The Trinity study's 4% rule is the closest thing retirement planning has to a law. It's also a first guess, not a promise. Here's the honest breakdown with numbers.
Every retirement forum argues this forever. The math, though, keeps coming back to a single comparison: your tax rate today versus your tax rate in retirement.
Somewhere around age 73, the IRS starts forcing you to withdraw from your retirement accounts. Here's how the required minimum distribution math actually works, with the 2025 tables.
The classic 'buy term and invest the difference' argument ends with numbers that are hard to argue with. Let's actually run them.
Sell the loser, buy something similar, and turn a paper loss into a real tax deduction. The rules, the $3,000 cap, and the wash sale trap.
There's a number that settles most pension buyout debates: the discount rate at which the lump sum and the annuity are equal. Here's how to find yours.