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Modeling withdrawals from a taxable account

Financial Services Review | 2010

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DOI: 10.61190/fsr.v19i1.4964

Journal: Financial Services Review

Year: 2010

Publisher: Academy of Financial Services

Document Type: Article

Open Access: All Open Access; Gold Open Access

Cited by: 1

Abstract

This paper demonstrates how to correctly model withdrawals from a taxable account. The presented framework is largely generalized as it accommodates for varying rates of return, changing tax rates, different time periods, flexible withdrawal amounts, inflation, cost basis, and level of capital gains annual distribution. Closed-form solutions for special cases of constant rate of return, constant annual after-tax withdrawal, constant tax rates and constant share of distributed capital gains as well as the inflation-adjusted after-tax withdrawal are derived and supplemented by illustrative examples. The results have broad applications for the research in financial planning whenever modeling of the withdrawal phase has to be incorporated into the analysis. © 2010 Academy of Financial Services. All rights reserved.

Keywords

After-tax value; Annuitization; Taxable equity account; Withdrawal