What is an IRA
What is an IRA or individual retirement account (IRA)? An Individual Retirement Account, or IRA is a personal savings plan sponsored by the U.S. government designed to allow individuals to save money for retirement that can be either in the form of tax-deferred contributions or post-tax contributions. The best thing about IRAs: The interest you earn on money invested in your individual retirement account isn't taxed until it's paid out to you at retirement, but don't confuse this with Roth IRAs which are funded with after tax dollars and withdrawals are not taxable at all! Therefore its better off with a traditional IRA than a Roth IRA because you get more benefit from it since there' s no taxes before and when withdrawing rather than just withdrawing from a Roth IRA. The money you contribute to an Individual retirement account (IRA) can be deducted from your gross income for federal taxes, which is known as the tax-deduction IRA feature. The Internal Revenue Ser...