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A Keogh Plan is an IRA for self-employed people. Oh. Did we just spoil this video? You should still watch it...we put a lot of work into it...

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Finance allah shmoop What is a keogh plan Well basically

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it's an ira for self employed people and more or

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less like have your own company your own llc Well

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then you probably want to sock away some dough without

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paying taxes today betting that you'll want to pay him

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instead Tomorrow if ever knock on the door of keogh

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plan central and you'll save your way to prosperity Sort

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of lungs You invest the money well in the market

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Well basically the keio works just like an ira If

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you makes a hundred grand a year and you pay

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thirty five percent tax on that last ten grand that

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you make or thirty five hundred box well instead you

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could put that ten grand into a keogh plan invested

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for however many years until you're an old geezer Think

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seventeen and a half plus And hopefully that ten grand

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grows a whole lot in an index fund or something

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like that Because the market doubles about every seven eight

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nine ten years something like that And then when you're

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not working i'ii earning ah whole lot less money Well

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then you can start withdrawing that money from your keogh

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Plan You pay something more like i don't know twenty

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percent in taxes at that point because you're taking lesson

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pay than you did when you were accumulating wealth like

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that thirty five percent So while the fuss to save

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just fifteen percent net difference in taxes at thirty five

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minutes Twenty there Well it's not that much fuss A

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few forms you fill out of filing here and there

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and well that's kind of it You go buy an

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index fund and sit but more to the point it's

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a day discipline That is when you have this wonderful

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allure of saving taxes well for most people it's enough

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of an incentive to actually save money rather than spend

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it and that's a good thing to dio So you

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don't end up like this guy living in his suv 00:01:46.432 --> [endTime] you know down by the river

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