DawnC
Expert Alumni

Retirement tax questions

You are welcome!  They did not understand why you were asking, I think.  There are differences between a 401k and a pension (you fund a 401k, and the employer funds a pension), so Vanguard wasn't wrong.   But for tax purposes, a 401k is the same as a pension.   Neither are IRAs.  

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