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Age 66. Investments earning long term capital gains and qualified dividends. These are automatically reinvested in the fund(s). Since no money in those funds was ever taxed, are these earnings taxed like regular income if withdrawn?
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That is one of the benefits of a deductible Traditional IRA. You get a deduction now for it and it grows tax deferred. You don't report buys, sell, interest, dividends or any transactions. So you can do a lot of stock trading and moving funds around inside the IRA.
You only report Distributions and rollovers and conversions. You will get a 1099R for those. You only pay tax on what you take out or convert to a ROTH IRA. But then it's taxed as ordinary income and not capital gains.
See IRS Pub 590a IRA Contributions https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p590a.pdf
590b Distributions https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p590b.pdf
That is one of the benefits of a deductible Traditional IRA. You get a deduction now for it and it grows tax deferred. You don't report buys, sell, interest, dividends or any transactions. So you can do a lot of stock trading and moving funds around inside the IRA.
You only report Distributions and rollovers and conversions. You will get a 1099R for those. You only pay tax on what you take out or convert to a ROTH IRA. But then it's taxed as ordinary income and not capital gains.
See IRS Pub 590a IRA Contributions https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p590a.pdf
590b Distributions https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p590b.pdf
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