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Know lots of people that max it out of their base, either way unless you have a bad loan situation every analyst should 100% be maxing their 401k

 

Why would you ever contribute to your 401k lol, I took all my savings from my stub and left over salary and dumped it into a property, 10% down payment in my hometown and it's doing better than whatever 8% yield some dumb ass BlackRock mutual fund could ever do

 

are YOU retarded? Do you ever actually bother to check what the time value of money is like in 401ks? Americans are such good guinea pigs it's hilarious "HAHA DUMBASS, I'M THE SMART ONE, YOU SEE MY MONEY IS NOW LOCKED UP FOR 40 YEARS!!!!! HAHA" fucking retard, I already own a property producing clean cash flow NOW, not money that I can withdraw when I'm 57.5 or whatever, do better...

 

I don’t know why this continues to be such a common misunderstanding on this forum. 

Bonuses are not taxed more than your base, your firm just withholds more as the payroll system assumes that large bonus is a regular occurring payment. 

At the end of the day, you will owe the same amount of taxes for a year, regardless of base or bonus. So by doing it out of base or bonus you are only changing how much is withheld, not changing anything about the total amount of taxes you will pay over a year. 

 

Call me stupid but someone told me that the city or state of NY does do a lump sum payment tax though, which brings total taxable rate on bonuses over 50%?

 

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