I hold a limited partnership in a non traditional IRA. Besides the investment being a stinker, there is significant annual compliance costs, like $500 bucks or so a year. I also started a company using my 401K, opting to use the Retirement Owned Business "rob" program. The compliance and ongoing cost again are very high. In addition to the difficulty setting these up, I'm finding they are challenging to unwind, as I'm 6 months into trying to shut down the ROB.
In my opinion, the speed, flexibility and ability to leverage, out weigh the potential tax free earnings of having it in an IRA.
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