Your 401(k) Just Got More Valuable

Liz Weston, NerdWallet.com
Fri, 04/12/2019 - 9:30am

If your tax refund this year was disappointing, you may be able to do something about it: Contribute more to a retirement fund. Tax-deductible contributions to 401(k)s, IRAs and other retirement accounts are among the few remaining ways to reduce taxable income if you don’t itemize deductions. And few of us do these days: Only... Liz Weston is a writer at NerdWallet.

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