The Early Tax Deadline You Can't Afford to Miss

For millions of taxpayers, the April 15 deadline to file your 2012 return already looms large. But for a select group of retirement savers, there's a deadline coming even sooner -- and missing it could cost you a huge amount of money.

That select group includes those who have money in traditional IRAs and 401(k) accounts and who turned age 70½ during 2012.

Under what's known as the required minimum distribution or RMD rules, you have until April 1 of the following year to make your first required withdrawal. In subsequent years, you need to take money out of your account by Dec. 31 to cover that year's RMD. Read more >>

How the Government Will Take Control of Your Retirement Account

In the US, I think retirement accounts will be the first to go. They're the easiest to grab because most people hold their retirement accounts domestically with a large financial institution that will happily sell every customer down the river when the government comes calling.

The way they'll do this is simple-- the next time there's a market meltdown (bear in mind that insiders are selling like crazy right now...), the government will step in with new legislation that requires these institutions to invest a portion of their accounts in the 'safety' of government securities.

Insider politiconomists like Teresa Ghilarducci have already strongly advocated for government managed retirement accounts in the US, and we've seen numerous examples of other bankrupt nations from Argentina to Hungary moving to seize their citizens' pensions. Read More...