Anyone with a tax-deferred retirement account must understand required minimum distributions (RMDs).

RMDs are mandatory withdrawals from pretax retirement accounts. Find out how RMDs work and when you'll need to start taking them.

Retirement accounts like the 401(k), 403(b), and traditional IRA are tax-deferred, meaning you get a tax break upfront (the ability to deduct contributions from your taxable income), but you must ...

Once you’re 73 years old, the IRS requires you to take taxable distributions from most retirement accounts. There’s a formula that determines your particular minimum withdrawal. Fortunately, you’ve ...

Once you reach the age of 73, the IRS requires you to make minimum annual distributions from non-Roth retirement accounts. You must calculate your own RMD based on the value of your ordinary IRAs as ...

Required minimum distributions, or RMDs, are the amounts that must be withdrawn each year from specific retirement plan accounts upon reaching the required minimum distribution age. These mandatory ...

Understand when and how to calculate RMDs and avoid stiff penalties from your tax-deferred IRA.

The IRS spends a lot of energy making sure people don’t tap their retirement accounts, imposing taxes and penalties on most early withdrawals. So it might surprise you to learn that at a certain point ...