I still fail to understand. This would make sense for an After-Tax 401k, but for a Roth account, it's 100% non-taxable. The penalty is a constraint based on your age IIRC, there's nothing to track.
On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 7:49 PM William Bean <wbea...@gmail.com> wrote: > Agreed. The actual investments and everything would be tracked as a > regular account. The contribution tracking would be something separate, > which is why I'm contemplating just an account with fake currency for this. > I intend to use it to track how much money I have available as an emergency > fund (in addition to other assets). It probably makes sense to just be an > asset with fake currency (or maybe just track the cash contributions via > metadata), but wasn't sure if anyone had come up with a better solution, so > figured I'd ask. > > On Saturday, April 24, 2021 at 7:22:05 PM UTC-4 bl...@furius.ca wrote: > >> I treat this as a regular account. >> Why would you track this? The whole point is to keep the account around >> for old age. >> >> >> On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 5:32 PM William Bean <wbe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Does anyone have a specific way they track Roth contributions in >>> Beancount, so you know how much you can withdraw penalty free before age >>> 59.5? I was thinking of just a simple asset account with fake currency, but >>> wasn't sure if there was a more elegant way to do this? >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Beancount" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to beancount+...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAO0DHEBwWTwDWm8VHD8jQj5dWKSd1O3ssBvsz4U%3DLb_%2BVqo18w%40mail.gmail.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAO0DHEBwWTwDWm8VHD8jQj5dWKSd1O3ssBvsz4U%3DLb_%2BVqo18w%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Beancount" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/b99d5cc5-ea1f-4083-81fe-a7820c0a3e91n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/b99d5cc5-ea1f-4083-81fe-a7820c0a3e91n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAK21%2BhOPVg%3DZH%3DfwMx3cM1xiWAC_JF1jzm_49_C6LdVMOW5GKg%40mail.gmail.com.
