Personal Finance Daily: Protect your IRA -- from yourself and the tax man

Personal Finance Daily FEBRUARY 21, 2012 Tuesday's Personal Finance Stories By MarketWatch Don't miss these top stories: 10 ways to get the most out of your IRA  IRA mistakes you don't want to make IRA strategies to lower your tax bills 7 tips to savings bliss Forget Dow 13,000; the real story is Wilshire 5000 Did you know there's a limit of one IRA-to-IRA rollover per year? Any rollovers after that are considered fully taxable distributions. IRA expert Ed Slott says that one of his clients, without telling anyone, did about 20 IRA rollovers in one year, chasing higher rates on CDs. In the process, he decimated his $1 million retirement account. That's just one of the mistakes Slott and tax expert Jack Nuckolls detail in our Retirement Adviser special report. Read all three stories on IRAs and taxes, including Robert Powell's look at 10 ways to get the most out of your IRA, plus a piece on IRA strategies to lower your tax bills. There are also three video interviews featuring Slott and Nuckolls. Also, don't miss Jennifer Waters's latest Consumer Confidential for a look at a new survey that finds Americans are saving less, along with tips on how each of us can turn that trend around, at least in our own lives. — Andrea Coombes , Personal Finance editor RETIREMENT ADVISER: SPECIAL REPORT 10 ways to get the most out of your IRA There are plenty of little-known ways to get the most out of your IRA — strategies that you should revisit at least once per year. Tax season, when you're trying hard to reduce your income-tax bill, is a good time. 10 ways to get the most out of your IRA. Tax mistakes that can wreck your retirement A slew of tax rules can trip you up you when it comes time to move money or cash out your retirement savings — and getting it wrong will cost you. At a recent MarketWatch Retirement Adviser event, two retirement-plan experts offered their insights on how to make sure taxes don't crack your nest egg. Tax mistakes that can wreck your retirement. IRA strategies to lower your tax bills Higher tax rates are coming in the years ahead — that seems all but certain. So how to manage your retirement accounts given that prospect? At a recent MarketWatch Retirement Adviser event, two experts spoke about strategies to mitigate the negative effect of taxes on retirement savings. IRA strategies to lower your tax bills. IRA mistakes you don't want to make What are the most common IRA mistakes savers make? In this edition of MarketWatch's Retirement Adviser, Andrea Coombes talks with Ed Slott, founder of IRAHelp.com, and Jack Nuckolls, head of private-client tax services at BDO, about costly errors.  Video: IRA mistakes you don't want to make. IRAs: How to reduce your tax hit Got an IRA? Higher taxes are looming. 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