{"id":352,"date":"2022-04-05T18:21:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T18:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weissthompson.com\/blog\/?p=352"},"modified":"2022-04-05T18:21:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T18:21:57","slug":"tax-smart-strategies-to-pay-for-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weissthompson.com\/blog\/index.php\/2022\/04\/05\/tax-smart-strategies-to-pay-for-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax-Smart Strategies to Pay for College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big advantage of 529 plans is that qualified withdrawals are always federal-income-taxfree and usually state-income-tax-free too. What you may not know is that not all 529 withdrawals are tax-free qualified withdrawals, even in years when you have heavy college costs. This article explains what we think are the six most important things to know about 529 withdrawals:<\/p>\n<p>Point No. 1: You Usually Have Several Payment Options<br \/>\nPoint No. 2: Watch Out for Withdrawals from 529 Accounts Funded with Custodial Account Money<br \/>\nPoint No. 3: The IRS Knows about Withdrawals<br \/>\nPoint No. 4: Withdrawals May Be Taxable Even in Years When Substantial College Costs Are Incurred<br \/>\nPoint No. 5: When You Keep a Withdrawal, There Are Tax Consequences<br \/>\nPoint No. 6: Withdrawals Not Used for Education Can Also Be Hit with a 10 Percent Penalty Tax<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.bradfordtaxinstitute.com\/Tools\/College-Premium.pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big advantage of 529 plans is that qualified withdrawals are always federal-income-taxfree and usually state-income-tax-free too. What you may not know is that not all 529 withdrawals are tax-free qualified withdrawals, even in years when you have heavy college costs. This article explains what we think are the six most important things to know &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weissthompson.com\/blog\/index.php\/2022\/04\/05\/tax-smart-strategies-to-pay-for-college\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tax-Smart Strategies to Pay for College&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weissthompson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weissthompson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weissthompson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weissthompson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weissthompson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.weissthompson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/www.weissthompson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weissthompson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weissthompson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weissthompson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}