Investing a Roth IRA in early stage growth companies without violating prohibited transaction rules
Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg News REGISTER NOW Given their popularity and widespread use, people rarely think of IRAs as “tax shelters.” But truth be told, that’s exactly what an individual retirement account is: a legal tax shelter. However, in order to reap the benefits that traditional IRAs and Roth IRAs provide, taxpayers must comply with an assortment of rules. Such rules include limitations on the amount of money that can be contributed to IRAs each year, requirements related to the distribution of assets from those accounts, and restrictions on the types of transactions in which the IR...