third of them, have 401(k) plans. if you re work at a company big or small, you should be putting away as much money as you can in a retirement plan. it s the last beacon of light in a very high tax dark world we re in right now. the most money that you can put in is pretaxed. so if you re an individual, you can put away up to 17 1/2 thousand dollars into your 401(k) plan. if you don t have a 401(k), get an ira. you can set that up with your bank on monday. put away 5500 bucks and it s pretax. what about giving gifts? everybody is allowed to give up to $14,000 individually to anybody that you want. and if you re married, you and your spouse can each give $14,000 apiece to anybody that might be a future beneficiary. so for people that are looking to reduce their estate taxes, particularly when it comes to city, state, local tacks, where the biggest bite happens, you can give money away to your kids, for example, beneficiaries, $14,000 a year apiece. that s something you want to thin
on the top there, a message to the american government hanging there. we had to blur it out, america something you. and right now, the ukrainian military is walking a very fine line here. the last thing they want to do is give the russians a pretax to send the tens of thousands of troops they had staged on the boarder here into the eastern part of the ukraine, something that president putin says he has the right to do but hopes he does not do. clearly, tensions on both sides inside this city are very high, megyn. leyland, there were reports earlier today that flyers were being circulated by russian supporters in ukraine demanding that jews identify themselves and register with officials. were those reports true? reporter: well, certainly there were flyers passed out. even secretary of john kerry
something you. and right now, the ukrainian military is walking a very fine line here. the last thing they want to do is give the russians a pretax to send the tens of thousands of troops they had staged on the boarder here into the eastern part of the ukraine, something that president putin says he has the right to do but hopes he does not do. clearly, tensions on both sides inside this city are very high, megyn. leyland, there were reports earlier today that flyers were being circulated by russian supporters in ukraine demanding that jews identify themselves and register with officials. were those reports true? reporter: well, certainly there were flyers passed out. even secretary of john kerry weighed in. he called them grotesque.
whom there are 12, posted it on the treasury website. and when they suspended the individual mandate for certain preferred people, that was announced in a letter from secretary sebelius to six democratic senators. so this was the law of the united states of their private property. this change today wasn t announced, it was sort of discovered by the washington post and it was made on the pretax that they are gearing up for a surge expected surge of traffic. the one person we know signed up today, the president, doesn t even get his health care from anything associated with obamacare. but we know he was successful with his bronze selection. his staff did it for him. he picked the plan but did not do the signup process. he was there in spirit. but there are people going on
could itemized deduction on tax return. the government hikdz that up to 10% now that s more out-of-pocket 38% on medical expenses. 28% at the pharmacy. 23% on dental expenses. break that down. consumers are putting away this cash pretax. so now the government is cutting in half what you are able to put away so they can tax you more every year. eliminate the treasury s use it or lose it rule this year. one good thing about these. because before if you didn t spend all of the cash that you put away, again, pretax, throughout the year, you would lose that at the end of the year. and now it s capped at 2500 adds year. but you can now carry over $500 to next year if you don t spend it. so that s one good thing for families. why limit what people can spend on this whole plan? well, this is one way to make obamacare cost less. because the government is now able to tax more of your cash.