The Power of Zero, Revised and Updated
How to Get to the 0% Tax Bracket and Transform Your Retirement

While I think tax planning for retirement is often overlooked, I was not a fan of this book for a few reasons: 1. McKnight's math is imprecise and may give readers the wrong impression. While he goes into marginal tax brackets later in the book, he largely writes as if your top tax bracket is indeed......more

A quick and easy read that'll cause one to reconsider a few aspects of personal finance and retirement planning. Thesis: Tax rates will rise in the future as the US government will struggle to pay for underfunded/unfunded liabilities such as social security, medicare, and medicaid. As they get squee......more

This is one of those books that was created to try to sell you something. In this case, it’s trying to convince the reader that they have an issue with their savings plan, and that there is a way to pay zero taxes that only a few rich people currently know about. The solution involves using a variat......more

This book focuses on strategies used to shift taxable income and tax-deferred income into tax-free income. The logic being that with tax brackets at historically low levels today, and with the huge deficits our government is incurring and its need to someday 'pay the bill', now is the time to bite t......more

Missing key elements I was disappointed. The author did not address a better way to land in the 0% tax bracket and that is through capital gains and dividends. A lost opportunity. Instead he uses the expensive option of LRIPs. The author glosses over many points that don’t fit his argument that need......more