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4/5/13, "Obama Budget to Cap Retirement Accounts at $3 Million," Breitbart, Tony Lee
"The budget President Barack Obama will submit on April 10 will
contain a proposal that would prohibit individuals from accumulating
more than $3 million in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and
tax-preferred retirement accounts.
According to a White House statement,
the Obama administration believes the current rules allow some wealthy
individuals "to accumulate many millions of dollars in these accounts,
substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels of
retirement saving.""
"The budget would limit an individual’s total balance across
tax-preferred accounts to an amount sufficient to finance an annuity of
not more than $205,000 per year in retirement, or about $3 million in
2013," the statement said. "This proposal would raise $9 billion over 10
years."
Brian Graff, executive director and chief executive officer of the
American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries, told Bloomberg
News his group intends to "vigorously oppose" the proposal.
“It is a plan killer," Graff said.
“As business owners reach the cap, they will lose their incentive to
maintain a plan, and either shut down the plan or greatly reduce
benefits. This would leave workers with a greatly diminished plan or
without any plan at all.”"
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