Tax Guru-Ker$tetter Letter
Sunday, October 02, 2005
Donating Pre-Tax Retirement Accounts To Charity
From a reader:
Subject: For your blogConrad Teitell, LLM (principal at Cummings & Lockwood) has initiated a website to encourage permanent legislation on charitable IRA rollovers. The website is at: IraGift.orgYou may consider this for your blog.James W. Fogal, CFP
I wrote back:
James:
Thanks for passing that along. I wasn't aware of that bill; but it makes a lot of sense. I've long thought that it was crazy that it's more beneficial tax-wise to donate pre-tax retirement accounts to charity after you pass away than while you are alive.
I will include this on my blog.
Kerry Kerstetter