10 Steps to Take Now for a Tax-Free Retirement

10 Steps to Take Now for a Tax-Free Retirement
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“Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes,” Benjamin Franklin wrote in a 1789 letter.

The significance between that often-cited quotation? It’s often the first attribution to the adage, “Nothing is certain except for death and taxes.”

Steps to Take Now for a Tax-Free Retirement

However, The Yale Book of Quotations quotes “Tis impossible to be sure of anything but Death and Taxes,” from Christopher Bullock, The Cobler of Preston (1716). And, also it quotes “Death and Taxes, they are certain,” from Edward Ward, The Dancing Devils (1724).