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Originally Posted by evilanne
Your post isn't very clear. Is the 1.25 portfolio in taxable brokerage account? If so, it will be taxed as investment income, LT or ST capital gains or losses based on your transactions. It really depends on how long you have held the assets in the account but typically since there is a cost basis involved and the capital gains rates are preferential, your tax bill should be lower than drawing from a tax deferred account. Short term gains/losses are taxed as ordinary income. If you sell everything in the portfolio to buy funds mentioned, however, you could have a huge tax impact so I wouldn't recommend doing it all at once. It also depends on what other income you have during the tax year since capital gains rate is based on your marginal tax rate. If everything is tax deferred you can roll it over to another account without any tax impact but then withdrawals are at ordinary income.
Withdrawals & conversions to Roth from tax deferred accounts are taxed as ordinary income. If you are under 59.5, there is 10% penalty in addition to tax unless an exception applies.
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The initial point of my question was just to compare the tax efficacy of 50k annual withdrawal from VWIAX vs. VPGDX when it is our only taxable income. Seems nothing is ever as simple as I hope...
The 1.25M is coming from stock option payouts and non-qualified deferred pay which will be all cash payments the day I quit my job. A massive tax hit initially but nothing I can do about it. I would buy the retirement income fund of choice immediately after retirement when I get my hands on the cash in which case I could use other funds for the first year to avoid ST capital gains.
Good point about having to wait until 59.5 before starting Roth conversions. I am 53 now.
We will have no other significant income. As I mentioned DW's salary will be used up pre-tax and most of my other monies are in deferred retirement accounts and taxable brokerage account which is currently 100% VTI. Hoping there is no need to touch any of that for 15 years. I will eventually get a pension but not starting that until at 62 earliest.
Hope this fills some of the earlier gaps. Thanks for the useful input.