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The Coverdell ESA And Education Credits

 

            The Coverdell ESA and Education Credits.
             One of the many responsibilities of having children is helping pay for their education. As we all know, a solid education is the foundation for an individual's success. However, school days are, to say the least, expensive days. By 2020 a college education, depending on whether your child attends an Ivy League or public university, could cost between $90,000 and $200,000. It was not that long ago that parents and their children were basically on their own when it came to paying for college. That all changed a few years ago when the government began to implement tax-based programs to help people pay for school. The good news is that these programs have been expanded even more under the 2001 Tax Relief Reconciliation Act. One of these programs, the Education IRA, is meant to help parents and relatives save for college. Some of the other programs, such as the Hope Scholarship and the Lifetime Learning Credit help people pay for higher education expenses by offering tax- saving incentives.
             While the federal government did not go so far as to make saving for college actually tax deductible, it did create a savings plan, much like a Roth IRA, which allows anyone to save up to $2,000 a year (formerly only $500) of after-tax money in a tax-sheltered account. Also like IRAs, a person can contribute for the current tax year up until April 15th of the following year. In other words, all of the investment growth and interest will be tax-free so long as it is used for approved education expenses of the beneficiary. That tax-protected compounding can make a huge difference in the amounts of money that will be available for college. In verbal detail, "an Education IRA is a trust or custodial account that is created or organized in the United States exclusively for the purpose of paying the qualified higher education expenses of the designated beneficiary of the account" (IRS.


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