A QCD can reduce your tax bill in retirement while meeting charitable giving goals. Here’s how.

For retirees staring at a looming tax bill from required minimum distributions, there is a little-used maneuver that can ...

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Who can make this kind of gift? People seventy and a half years old and older (even when your required minimum distribution starts at age seventy-three). Yes. An IRA owner can make a one-time election ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Empowering smarter money moves. Have you considered using a QCD vs RMD for charitable giving, reducing your tax burden and ...

An individual retirement account owner aged 70 ½ or more may be able to withdraw money from the account tax-free and use it to support favorite causes with a qualified charitable distribution (QCD).

For most people, December is the month for giving. But when it comes to taxes, January should be the time to start the planning process for maximizing the tax benefits of donating to charity. One of ...

Assets in individual retirement accounts are the best assets to give to charity, since they’re loaded with taxes. For those who give regardless, using IRAs to make the gifts can provide tax benefits — ...

The release of the official IRS Publication 590-B brought clarity to the issue of limitations on QCDs based on deductible contributions made to IRAs. A big change related to qualified charitable ...

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