From: "jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com>
To: Valeria Chomsky
Subject: Re: Tax payments
Date: Wed, 02 May 2018 16:39:05 +0000
just send me the note from nick from this april regarding the 3 payments 240 35 20
On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 12:22 PM Valeria Chomsky < > wrote:
Thank you so much for assisting us on all of this. As you can see (below). I was trying to clarify things with them by myself.
But reaching no results.
Valeria
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From: Valeria Chomsky
Date: Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 2:49 PM
Subject: Fwd: Tax a ments
To: Nick Nichols
Cc: Noam Chomsky
Nick,
I meant 2015 taxes.
The meeting with you, Deborah and Max at Deborah's office was on April 6th, 2016 regarding 2015 taxes and
from then on. According to Bainco there were withdrawals from Noam's IRA for taxes in 2016 not only for
2015 taxes, but also for 2016 estimated, as follows:
These amounts were taken when we had reached the IRA limit already.
I would just like to clarify that Noam's letter was referring to the 2016 withdrawals cited above which were
taken from Noam's IRA account, contrary to what had been decided in the meeting on April 6th. That's what
surprised us and we would like to understand why it happened.
Valeria
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From: Nick Nichols <I
Date: Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: Tax payments
To: Noam Chomsky
Cc: Valeria Chomsky
Noam and Valeria,
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But your question was about 2014 taxes. That was prior to that meeting. Yes, everyone did agree to minimize
the use of retirement assets so long as other assets are available. Also RMDs can be used since they must
come out anyway.
Safe travels, more later.
Nick
Sent from my Veto?! Wireless 4G LTE DROID
Noam Chomsky wrote:
I would like to expand on the letter that Valeria sent you.
I was quite surprised to learn that taxes had been taken this year from the IRA. At our meeting in Deborah's
office with you and Max, I explained why I thought that the taxes should not be taken from the IRA, but rather
from the trust that Carol and I had set up many years ago. To reiterate, I explained that when we set up the
trust, we simply took for granted that I would die first so the funds would go to her. Our intention of course
that whoever survived would have the funds available. Accordingly, it seems to me right that some portion of
that trust should be used to pay taxes, instead of diminishing the IRA to the point where we will, literally, not
have enough to live on. Max and Deborah agreed that taking tax payments from the trust would be legitimate.
The two trustees, Max and Harry, also agreed, as I of course assumed would be the case.
That is why I was surprised to find that taxes had been taken from the IRA, not only seriously diminishing the
IRA but also incurring a tax burden because of excessive withdrawals.
I wonder whether you have information as to why this happened, and whether there is some problem that I am
not seeing,
Noam
On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 12:00 AM, Nick Nichols < > wrote:
Valeria,
From memory, a significant portion of the 2014 taxes came from IRA distributions. I will have to check further
tomorrow when I can have easier access to the files. Of course that decision can only be applied prospectively. Once
we have the tax returns filed, we want to get back on the original project of tracing / following the money trail to be
clear how the cash flow was managed at that time.
For meeting, how about Sept 28, any time; Sept 29, morning only; or Sept 30 anytime.
Nick
From: Valeria Chomsky [mailto:
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2016 11:53 PM
To: Nick Nichols
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Cc: Noam Chomsky
Subject: Tax payments
On working through the information, I discovered that tax payments were taken from Noam's IRA. My
understanding had been that Noam had proposed and it was agreed that 2014 taxes were to be taken from a
Trust, as it was discussed in the meeting at Deborah's office with you and Max.
Could you please confirm if the 2014 tax payments were taken from Noam's IRA?
Valeria
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