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How Taxation Rules Your Investment Options You grow your savings so to use them later. Outside of contributing they grow according to how you invest them. Government's taxation plays an important part in how you choose what to invest in and how to hold that investment. This article overviews how your savings or investments are taxed and how that influences what you choose to invest in. How Much Income Tax Are the Feds Really Taking from You? If you're trying to save money, you ought to know how much the federal government is taking from what you earn. Most people just don't know. Finding out will show you why it's hard to get ahead. This article shows how the fed gets 35.4% of an $80,000 working income. Different Tax Treatments Suggest an Order for Tapping Your Sources of Income By the time you hit retirement, you've probably acquired a variety of savings and income assets. From these you'll withdraw income to live on and enjoy your retirement years. But because the tax treatment of your various assets differs, you should know that ordering how you withdraw from them can help preserve them longer. In this article I suggest a sequential order you should withdraw from the six common assets categories and why. Plan Not To Be Gouged By Estate Taxes in 2011 Just because the Estate Tax has been phased out in 2010, don't be lulled into thinking it won't be back with a vengeance. On the books, it's slated to return with only a $1 million exemption. Efforts to get rid of it altogether have failed. The government will be looking for more money anyway now anyway. The following give you the full picture and how to prepare for it.