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Stop contributing to your IRAs and 401(k)s? That has to be a typographical error. After all, traditional retirement planning has always preached maximizing contributions to tax-deferred individual retirement accounts and 401(k)s to build retirement savings.

The Internal Revenue Service is allowing people who inherited an individual retirement account after 2019 to skip a required minimum distribution this year, but most still must empty the account within 10 years.

Once again, due to ongoing confusion about required minimum distributions, the IRS has found it necessary to give limited relief to both IRA owners and beneficiaries. The relief was contained in Notice 2023-54, issued Friday.

Millions of high-earning Americans are slated to lose a popular tax deduction starting next year. Savers ages 50 and older can make catch-up contributions in their 401(k) accounts each year, with eligible workers allowed to put an extra $7,500 into their accounts, for a total of $30,000, this year.

Are you familiar with Roth IRAs? If you’re not, you should be, because Roth IRAs are a great way to get tax-free income after you retire.

It’s no exaggeration to say that every time you turn around lately, there’s a new tax law or piece of IRS guidance that changes the tax and distribution rules for IRAs.

Is there any benefit to using a traditional IRA? Here's a clip from our recent webinar with IRA expert Ed Slott where he gives his opinion. Want more Ed? Subscribe to Jill on Money LIVE to watch the full webinar.

The Secure 2.0 Act, passed in December, contains more than 90 provisions affecting retirement-savings plans, such as individual retirement accounts and 401(k) workplace plans.

Advisors should take advantage of today’s low tax rates — and “do Roth conversions while taxes are on sale!” according to Ed Slott of Ed Slott & Co. Every advisor, Slott told ThinkAdvisor Tuesday, “should be having this conversation with their clients. This may only last for the next three years (2023, 2024, and 2025). After that, tax rates are scheduled to revert back up to previous levels.”

What’s more, like 401(k)s, IRAs provide tax advantages to those who invest in them. If utilized properly, the Roth version of an IRA comes with tax-free withdrawals in retirement. And withdrawing money in retirement without owing any tax is the “holy grail,” says Ed Slott, a certified public accountant and founder of IRAHelp.com.