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by DaDaDan
Mon May 19, 2014 5:31 pm
Forum: General questions and comments
Topic: Cash-value life insurance
Replies: 1
Views: 7625

Cash-value life insurance

(Second post today...hopefully I'm not wearing out my welcome! But, I love this tool. I built something similar but much simpler in Excel VBA for my father several years ago.) My question is if anyone has any advice on how to account for cash-value life insurance in this thing -- both paying in and ...
by DaDaDan
Mon May 19, 2014 8:43 am
Forum: General questions and comments
Topic: Traditional vs Roth 401k/IRA
Replies: 3
Views: 10142

Traditional vs Roth 401k/IRA

How should I consider the difference between a traditional vs Roth account? If I put the same dollars into both, Roth wins, but it takes more pretax income to fund a Roth at the max. So, this is not an apples-to-apples comparison.

Should I just reduce my Roth contributions by my income tax rate?