Pay no ($0) taxes legally on up to $144,900 income by understanding the tax code and how adjustments to income, tax deductions like the standard deduction, tax credits, medicare tax, social security tax, FICA tax, capital gains, tax loss harvesting, tax gain harvesting, wash sale rule, and traditional retirement accounts work.
Keeping your emergency fund in savings like Dave Ramsey and Suze Orman recommend is costing you $1.5M! Here’s how much to save in an emergency fund by investing it in stocks in a Roth IRA like Graham Stephan suggests but also where to keep your emergency fund to keep it safe.
You should save this emergency fund as your first financial priority after paying down high interest debt like credit card debt.
68% of works aren’t engaged in their job and likely dread the idea of working until their 60s. Using Mr Money Mustache’s shockingly simple math behind early retirement, I’ve been able to lower my expenses (as tracked by Mint.com) enough to retire in 2 years by age 35.
His math assumes a $0 net worth but if you have debt or assets, you can use OnTrajectory.com to calculate your years until retirement. The Trinity Study indicated a 4% withdrawal rate will survive a 30-year retirement, but by retiring in our 30s we’re talking closer to a 60-year retirement! Using Karsten Jeske’s, Big ERN from EarlyRetirementNow.com, calculations, a 3.6% of assets safe withdrawal rate, or saving a nestegg of about 28 times your expenses, has a 95% chance of outlasting a 60-year retirement.