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I currently live in one unit of a two family home, and rent out the other unit. In ESPlanner Plus, I represent this by splitting certain costs and the purchase price between the primary home tab and the real estate tab, which seems to work well.

I'm unclear as to what to record as self-employment income as a sole proprietor. How do I record $150K income (before self-employment taxes) and $28,000 profit-sharing contribution (from that $150K income) to my Solo 401k?

Would it be possible to get the indexes that ESPlanner uses for the non-DFA funds? I'm trying to create a spreadsheet with nominal historical returns for a side analysis and want to use the same source.

Tags: medicare

I noticed in ver 2.37.0 that the Medicare Part B premium for 2018 has been increased by the inflation rate I've used in assumptions. Could you please explain the logic for this? It seems to me that it should not be increased at least for 2018 by inflation.
Thanks
James

Tags: 529

I see I am able to input the current balance of a 529 account, and schedule withdrawals. I expect to contribute 15K to this account each year for the next 5 years. How to I do this? Negative withdrawals???!!

Tags: Inflation

I want to confirm Net Estate is real dollars. My understanding is that assets and retirement accounts grow at the specified nominal rate, adjusted by the inflation rate specified in Assumptions. The Net Estate, then, should be stated in real dollars, correct?

In normal circumstances I use special withdrawals in some years to keep regular assets > 0. That avoids breaks in our LSPA.

I have a non-qualified deferred compensation that is distributed quarterly, and the distribution depends on the value of the underlying securities. I am trying to figure out the best way to input this into ESPlanner.

Housing expenditures fall year over year, because the Mortgage amount falls year over year. Property tax and insurance are constant. What is causing the mortgage number to fall? The actual payment is fixed.

How would you suggest modeling in 12 years selling our primary home and using the proceeds to use as the entrance fee (which would then be 90% refundable at our deaths to our estate)for a CCRC. We would also have a monthly maintenance fee.

I seek guidance on 401k distribution strategies to include Roth conversions.

More specifically, I seek 401k withdrawal tools which model withdrawal strategies that would include Roth conversions or other concepts that consider loss risk, tax liability, inflation, etc.

My wife and I would like to convert $10,000 each per year from our regular IRAs to our Roth IRAs from now (we are in our early 60's) until we each reach 70. Since we are currently retired, we will be making no other contributions to our retirement accounts aside from the Roth conversions.

I am performing Economics-Based Planning. On the Economic Assumptions for the Nominal Rates of Return for both Regular Assets and Retirement Accounts, I'd like to model the expectation of reduced returns over the next 10 years.

I previously asked a question on how to drive discretionary funds to my end of plan. In my case, I have accounted for projected annual spend within the housing entries or Special Expenditures (SE) area.
My goal:

Tags: 401k loans

I will take a hiatus from work during which I'll need to use our tax-deferred accounts. If I take a withdrawal I have to pay taxes and can't put it back. My wife will be continuously employed. If we take a loan from her 401k we won't pay taxes on it and can replete it when I return to work.

I may be laid off soon and tried to capture the changes in ESP. I was surprised to see the Recommended Life Insurance bump up to much higher than before, actually from reducing insurance to increasing it to $475k. I would retire about a year earlier than planned and previously modeled.

I'm considering leaving my salary job to become a consultant/contractor. One option is forming an S corp vs being a sole proprietor. It seems that ESP properly handles the SS tax part of a sole proprietorship, but what are the ramifications of doing business as an S corp?

I'm 71 and receiving SS since I was 66; my wife is 66. She just filed and suspended (until 70). She is receiving the spousal benefit in the meantime, but I can't get ESPlanner to recognize that. How do I enter the data? I have pasted all the past earnings into ESP, fyi.

Tags: taxes

Will the next release of ESPlanner that incorporates the new Tax law changes calculate taxes with & without itemized deductions?

My plan is to sell existing house, then rent, in 2028. In ESP program, in Primary Home, Current Home tab, entered market value, prop. tax, insurance, etc. (no mortgage, so all zeroes).

I understand from a prior post that it is not possible for the user to take a 'current' data base, create a renamed copy of it, and then through ESPlanner, make what seems should be a simple change of marital status in the new data base.

Tags: monte carlo

My Standard of Living results have previously made sense, or at least I didn't notice that they didn't.

Tags: asset values

When I enter savings account and 401k amounts, I enter the data as of the beginning of the calendar year (for example, January 1, 2017) and then do not change those entries until January of the following year.

We will release our annual update of federal income taxes based on previously existing law, i.e. prior to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017, on 7 Jan 2018 after IRS's scheduled 5 Jan update of final 2017 forms and instructions.

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