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Old 02-10-2020, 09:03 AM
collie1228 collie1228 is offline
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To me the real reason for the government to enact the Secure Act was to get their federal income tax dollars earlier. It's a big deal that your non-spouse heirs now have only ten years to fully liquidate an inherited IRA (in other words, ten years for the government to collect it's taxes).