Thanks for the link.Thanks. I am very familiar with the spreadsheet and the thread. You may want to review one of my replies to get another perspective on the downstream effects once one is retired and continues to hold municipal funds when in a lower tax bracket.
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This is why I asked the OP about the goals and purpose for the ETF.
Could you explain this a bit more? Is this all relayed to the fact that the CA muni income effectively disappears from your AGI/MAGI?I have owned VCTXX since 1996 and have never swapped out...
•I would lose the 0% QD/LTCG tax rate and would pay an additional 15%.
•I would lose the ACA PTC with the higher gross MAGI.
•As itemized deduction exclusions are based upon AGI, I would lose much of that.
•I lose a great realized tax arbitrage of 32% plus on my 401k distributions as it shrinks to 10% or less.
•I get some CA credits due to the lower AGI. Those disappear.
How I wish that switching from VUSXX to VCTXX would drop my tax tiers.
Agreed and why I have been very careful to only look at the MMFs that target 100% USGO. And even that is not safe with VUSXX being 80% last year.There are some other gotchas involved. CA tax law stipulated that for a fund's USGOs to be state tax exempt, they must be at 50% or above each calendar quarter. Miss one quarter and the entire year is taxed as ordinary income. Some people found that out the hard way last year with VMFXX federal MMF and cash reserves settlement fund.
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