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Retire Early with No Tax Bill

By James M. Dahle, MD, FACEP | on August 8, 2017 | 0 Comment
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While $100,000 might not seem like much when compared to the gross salary of an emergency physician, with a dramatically reduced tax bill, without student loans, with no need to save for retirement or college, and with a paid-off mortgage, $100,000 may very well be enough to allow you to maintain your preretirement standard of living.

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ACEP Now: Vol 36 – No 08 – August 2017

Even if you decide to have a more luxurious retirement than $100,000 of spending per year, you are still likely to have a dramatically lower tax bill in retirement. It might not be $0, but it will probably be closer to $0 than to what you are paying now. In fact, early retirees often deliberately increase their tax bill by doing Roth conversions of tax-deferred money in order to lower their overall lifetime tax burden, but that’s a subject for another column.

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James M. Dahle, MD, FACEP

James M. Dahle, MD, FACEP, is the author of The White Coat Investor: A Doctor’s Guide to Personal Finance and Investing and blogs at http://whitecoatinvestor.com. He is not a licensed financial adviser, accountant, or attorney and recommends you consult with your own advisers prior to acting on any information you read here.

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