Taxable and Tax-Deferred Investing: A Tax-Arbitrage Approach
41 Pages Posted: 13 Jun 2003 Last revised: 17 Jul 2008
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Taxable and Tax-Deferred Investing: A Tax-Arbitrage Approach
Taxable and Tax-Deferred Investing: A Tax-Arbitrage Approach
Date Written: March 1, 2008
Abstract
We analyze an intertemporal portfolio problem with both taxable and tax-deferred retirement accounts. Using a tax-arbitrage argument, we identify conditions under which the optimal location decision (of where to place an asset) is separable from the allocation decision (of how much to allocate to each asset). Investors place highly taxed assets in the tax-deferred account to maximize the tax benefit, and adjust their taxable portfolios to achieve the optimal risk exposure. We show that the two-account problem can be reduced to a taxable-account-only problem. The results are robust to the possibility of postponing capital gains taxes, consumption and contribution decisions, and stochastic tax rates.
Keywords: Portfolio selection, tax-deferred accounts, tax-arbitrage
JEL Classification: G11
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