Structured Settlements 4Real®Blog 2026
Structured settlements expert John Darer reviews the latest structured settlements and settlement planning information and news, and provides expert opinion and highly regarded commentary. that is spicy, Informative, irreverent and effective for over 20 years.
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Category: Taxable Equivalent Yield
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Structured settlement payments received on account of physical injury, physical sickness, workers compensation, and/or wrongful death, are income tax free to extent the payments represent damages within the meaning of IRC 140(a)(1) or 104(a)(2). How valuable is the tax exclusion?
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Use the Taxable Equivalent Yield Chart to see the effect of rising tax brackets at various levels of structured settlement internal rates of return. You can also use the chart to learn what your taxable investment will be worth after taxes.
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Eliminate or reduce “shrinkage” of your personal injury, wrongful death lawsuit or employment related lawsuit recovery by using structured settlements
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MORE TAXES+ GREATER INTRINSIC VALUE FOR NEW AND EXISTING STRUCTURES, even in a low interest rate environment. Check out the taxable equivalent yield chart at 4structures.com and see how that “puny 3% rate of return”, “ain’t too shabby” if you’re in the 40% tax bracket.
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People who succumbed to the Genex Capital sales panic, and sold their payments at a discount in 2009, hoping that after tax interest rates would be sufficient to cover the discount, when they really did not need to.sell. . They lost money
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Rumors of future tax increases continue, but at least from a taxation standpoint. for now, things are not as bad in the United States as other developed countries, according to the findings of a UHY International tax study published June 10, 2011. Country Net Amount of a $25,000 salary kept after taxes and social security…
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A company called Rescue Capital wants you to cash out your structured settlements with the justification being this piece of "donkey dung": "Interest rates offered five years ago by insurance companies for structured annuities are not much better than they are now. Add to that the fact that it is not certain that tax rate…
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Stocks Are Down 2.5% today (at time of writing) in another sharp sell off Bank Take Overs in 2010 (FDIC, CNBC) 72 Banks on Troubled List Now (FDIC, CNBC) 775 Banks on Troubled List August 26, 2008 (CNBC) 117 More food for thought… S&P 500 Down 10% Since April 23, 2009 (CNBC) Dow S&P…