From start to finish, we can take you through the tax planning process to help you achieve your financial goals.
TAX PLANNING
Cover Your Bases
To develop a solid tax plan, it's important to cover all your bases, including examining your current situation, setting financial goals and measuring your progress.
We follow a six step tax planning process and The Income for Life Model®–an investment strategy with the objective of providing an inflation-adjusted income for life.
Our Six Step Tax Planning Process
1) ORGANIZE
We gather all the information necessary to make prudent and educated decisions free of emotion. We will provide you with a helpful guide to help organize and prepare for your first visit.
2) ANALYZE
We work diligently to make sure we fully understand every aspect of a client's current situation and define reasonable goals for the future. Sometimes it is necessary to revisit this step several times to ensure the most accurate plan for the client.
3) PLAN
Next, we summarize the analysis and create an outline of the goals we've set, and the steps needed to be taken to ensure a successful achievement.
4) IMPLEMENT
We work closely with our clients to help them implement every aspect of their plan. Our experience and organization helps ensure a seamless and convenient setup for clients.
5) MANAGE
Management cannot be done without a proper plan. Our structure looks to monitor:
1. Our progress to our specific goals
2. Whether we've strayed from our plan, and if it is a good trend or bad
3. What should, and what should not, be changed to our plan.
We feel that disciplined planning is a client's best defense from stock market declines, investment losses and other significant financial events.
6) EVALUATE
We provide structure to ensure tax decisions are rational and not influenced by emotions that can work to our detriment. The evaluation process involves making necessary changes, along with deciding when to avoid changes to the things that are still contributing to our success.
RETIREMENT TAX QUESTIONS?
Ever wonder if you have enough money to retire? Or what the tax impact would be if you spent some of your retirement plan assets, today?
Are you concerned about generating enough retirement income? Have you thought about what percentage of your retirement income should be predictable, or what targeted rates-of-return may be appropriate for your long-term retirement investing? Visit our Resource Library to find free videos, guides, and whitepapers to help answer these, and other important questions.
Tax Efficient Retirement Income For Life
If you are over the age of 55, or have already retired, you need to ask yourself, “What is my retirement income distribution plan?” Do you have a well thought out, mathematically back tested, rock solid strategy in place that not only provides for your cash flow withdrawal needs, but also integrates and optimizes all areas of your new retirement lifestyle? Is your plan comprehensive? Does it integrate your taxable and non-taxable accounts to determine from which account you should be withdrawing from first, and how much? Does your plan properly maximize Social Security benefits for you and your spouse, to make sure that your claiming strategy gives you the highest possible lifetime benefit for you and your spouse, while minimizing taxes?
Has your withdrawal plan been back-tested to see how well it performs in both bull and bear markets, and what is the probability of success of the outcome? Are you prepared for, and does your plan protect you from not only market risk, but also sequence risk, (order of returns), inflation, interest risk, longevity risk, health care expenses, and unforeseen “black swan” events that could negatively impact your plan?
What certainty do you have that your plan can provide you with inflation adjusted income, for life?
At Optimal Tax, we are retirement income tax planning experts; because how you decide to withdraw (distribute) your retirement money is very different from how you accumulated it. Our tax plans, provide you with tangible, intelligent and logical methods to solve the problems that retirees face today.
The Income for Life Model® is an investment strategy with the objective of providing reliable, inflation- adjusted income for life. The strategy allocates assets in a manner that places a heavy emphasis on guaranteed* streams of income that continue over long periods of time. This is extremely important because Americans are increasingly being forced to rely upon their own retirement savings to create the retirement income they will need. With longevity increasing and interest rates low, creating durable streams of retirement income can be challenging.
The Income for Life Model provides a sound foundation for creating that income. At Optimal Tax, LLC, we can develop a comprehensive retirement income tax plan that integrates and maximizes your Social Security benefits, and optimizes your taxable and non-taxable accounts to show you the most efficient, and effective way to plan your retirement income distributions.