Savings Bond Advisor archive for March, 2005

How to remove an owner who isn't the principal owner from a Savings Bond registration without creating a taxable event.

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Can I invest my Roth IRA funds in Savings Bonds?

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Update on State Treasurers suit against US Treasury over unclaimed Savings Bonds.

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Can a savings bond ever be worth more than its face value?

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My daughter's godfather wants to start buying her savings bonds and has asked for her social security number in order to do this. We have already received two $25 saving bonds without having to use her social security number. Is this necessary?

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Tell me about saving bonds.

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Is there any way to avoid paying taxes on Savings Bond interest - for example, signing them over to a relative, transferring them to a grandchild's education fund, or perhaps signing them over to a charity?

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What is the telephone number for Treasury Direct?

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Can the Executor of an estate choose to cash in and pay taxes on a partial amount of a bond inventory?

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Seven out of ten of the people hold Savings Bonds that have stopped earning interest because they don't want to pay income tax on the interest. From a financial and tax standpoint, keeping these stinkers is an appallingly bad decision.

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I don't understand why the Savings Bond Calculator and Savings Bond Wizard show the rate and yield of my Savings Bonds as different. How they are the rate and yield computed?

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