
Retirement Tax Planning in San Diego
Since 2009, Imeson Wealth Partners LLC, led by Garrett Imeson, CFP®, has helped hundreds of San Diego residents navigate retirement with confidence and tax efficiency. As a qualified local financial planner, Imeson Wealth offers retirement tax planning services in San Diego to help mitigate tax burdens, enhance after-tax income, and preserve long-term wealth.
We specialize in tax-efficient retirement planning strategies designed for California’s unique tax environment, covering IRA and 401(k) withdrawal concerns, Social Security income planning, and Roth IRA conversions. Our expertise in San Diego tax laws ensures every plan aligns with current regulations while seeking to maximize after-tax returns.
From customized Roth Conversion Planning to Medicare & IRMAA Tax Management, we take a comprehensive approach that balances growth with compliance. Our clients rely on us to deliver measurable results that reduce liabilities, enhance savings, and create confidence throughout retirement.
Partner with Imeson Wealth today to structure a personalized, tax-efficient retirement plan that helps you keep more of what you’ve earned and enjoy the lifestyle you’ve worked hard to achieve.

Why Choose Imeson Wealth for Tax Planning Services in San Diego?
Choose Imeson Wealth Partners LLC for a personalized tax strategy built on experience, transparency, and measurable financial outcomes. We provide tailored tax planning techniques for San Diego residents, combining over 15 years of experience with in-depth knowledge of California’s complex tax regulations. Every strategy is built around your unique financial goals, seeking to minimize tax exposure, preserve your wealth, and plan confidently for the future.
Local Expertise
Deep understanding of San Diego and California tax laws, ensuring every plan is compliant and optimized.
Comprehensive Process
From initial assessment and tax analysis to ongoing strategy adjustments, we ensure continuous optimization.
Proven Results
Consistent success in helping clients reduce tax liabilities and increase after-tax income through precise, data-driven planning.
Personalized Strategies
Custom tax solutions designed for individuals, families, and business owners.
Integrated Planning
Seamless alignment with your retirement, investment, and estate planning goals for holistic wealth management.
Our Comprehensive Tax Planning Services
Imeson Wealth Partners LLC provides comprehensive retirement tax planning services to help San Diego clients enhance tax savings and wealth through every stage of life. With a holistic approach, we tailor strategies that evolve alongside your financial goals, helping you reduce liabilities, improve after-tax income, and achieve long-term stability. Our expertise covers retirement, investment, and estate planning, allowing every decision to support both tax compliance and growth.
Annual Tax Review & Forecasting
Staying ahead of developing tax laws demands more than filing; it requires active oversight. Imeson Wealth provides annual tax review and forecasting services to provide optimal tax planning and sustained financial clarity. These yearly evaluations uncover new deductions, prevent overpayments, and allow each tax strategy to align with your financial goals and current California tax codes. Our team conducts personalized annual tax reviews that assess income sources, deductions, and investment portfolios, paired with proactive tax forecasting that predicts future liabilities based on income trends and regulation shifts. By reviewing your tax position before each fiscal year closes, we help you identify opportunities to reduce future tax exposure and increase after-tax savings. Clients across San Diego consistently achieve measurable results, lower tax liabilities, stronger compliance, and improved cash flow stability. Partner with Imeson Wealth to help your tax plan stay strategic, responsive, and optimized year after year.
Charitable Giving Strategies
Philanthropy and financial strategy can work hand in hand. Imeson Wealth offers charitable giving strategies seeking to maximize tax savings while supporting philanthropic goals, turning generosity into a measurable financial advantage. We guide clients in structuring tax-efficient charitable donations, utilizing donor-advised funds (DAFs), appreciated assets, or charitable trusts to achieve significant deductions. These plans reduce taxable income while allowing sustained giving aligned with your personal values. Through thoughtful charitable planning, San Diego clients have realized meaningful tax savings and long-term giving impact. Let Imeson Wealth help you design a charitable giving plan that benefits both your causes and your financial future.
Social Security Optimization
Maximizing Social Security requires careful coordination with other income sources. Imeson Wealth optimizes Social Security benefits through tax-efficient strategies and personalized planning, ensuring every dollar works for you in retirement. We analyze your income mix, filing options, and tax brackets to determine the best time to begin withdrawals. By integrating Social Security with IRA distributions and other income sources, clients can reduce taxable benefits and enhance total retirement income. San Diego retirees who follow our optimization strategies consistently achieve higher net benefits and reduced lifetime tax costs. Let Imeson Wealth design your Social Security plan for smarter, more sustainable retirement income.
Retirement Income Tax Strategy
Retirement income deserves strategic tax planning to preserve what you’ve earned. Imeson Wealth offers retirement income tax strategies seeking to reduce tax burdens during retirement and enhance after-tax income for long-term financial stability. Our advisors develop tax-efficient retirement income strategies that coordinate IRA and 401(k) withdrawals, pension income, and Social Security benefits for excellent tax outcomes. By aligning these income streams with California’s retirement tax structure, clients can avoid bracket creep and preserve savings. Each plan includes ongoing adjustments for inflation, healthcare costs, and evolving tax regulations. Through structured planning, our clients in San Diego have achieved smoother cash flow, reduced tax exposure, and extended portfolio longevity. Work with Imeson Wealth to create a personalized retirement income strategy that supports both comfort and confidence.
Medicare & IRMAA Tax Management
Healthcare-related taxes can quietly erode retirement income. Imeson Wealth helps manage Medicare and IRMAA taxes to reduce healthcare-related tax costs in retirement, allowing clients to keep more of their benefits. We evaluate Modified Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI) thresholds, design Medicare premium reduction strategies, and help you control IRMAA surcharges through proactive tax planning. This helps your healthcare costs stay predictable and your income stay below penalty limits. Our personalized Medicare tax management has helped San Diego retirees reduce premiums, limit IRMAA surcharges, and preserve retirement income stability. Work with Imeson Wealth to safeguard your healthcare and financial future with strategic tax management.
Real Estate & Investment Tax Strategy
Real estate and investment decisions shape your tax future. Imeson Wealth offers real estate and investment tax strategies to reduce capital gains and enhance investment returns. Our team designs tax-deferred growth strategies using vehicles like 1031 exchanges, opportunity zones, and structured investment accounts. We help investors plan property sales, reinvest proceeds, and manage portfolio gains for maximum efficiency. With proactive planning, San Diego clients enjoy lower capital gains taxes and stronger after-tax investment performance. Consult Imeson Wealth to align your real estate and investment goals with tax-smart growth strategies.
Roth Conversion Planning
Strategic Roth IRA conversions can significantly reduce future tax obligations. Imeson Wealth specializes in Roth conversion planning to reduce future tax liabilities in retirement by turning taxable accounts into tax-efficient income streams. Our process includes a detailed tax analysis and income forecast to determine the most advantageous time for conversion. We calculate the tax impact, manage income thresholds, and integrate Roth conversion strategies into your overall retirement plan. This allows clients to control when they pay taxes while enjoying long-term tax-advantaged growth. San Diego clients who’ve implemented Roth conversions through Imeson Wealth have seen increased income flexibility and lower lifetime tax costs. Consider a strategic Roth conversion plan today to achieve greater tax efficiency in retirement.
Tax-Loss Harvesting
Market downturns can be opportunities in disguise. Imeson Wealth applies tax-loss harvesting strategies to offset taxable gains and reduce tax liabilities, improving after-tax performance while maintaining investment growth. By selling underperforming assets and reinvesting strategically, we help clients realize losses to offset capital gains taxes and balance their portfolios without disrupting market exposure. This disciplined approach enhances short-term tax efficiency and supports long-term wealth accumulation. San Diego investors leveraging our tax-loss harvesting framework have achieved greater portfolio resilience and measurable annual savings. Engage Imeson Wealth to integrate tax-loss harvesting into your investment strategy and increase after-tax returns.
Tax Diversification & Asset Location
Balancing investments across tax structures is key to financial resilience. Imeson Wealth specializes in tax diversification and asset location strategies to optimize tax savings while maintaining growth potential. We evaluate your entire portfolio to ensure the right assets sit in the right accounts—taxable, tax-deferred, or tax-free, based on expected return and risk tolerance. This tax-efficient asset allocation reduces unnecessary exposure and improves after-tax returns. Through strategic diversification, clients gain stability while maintaining flexibility to adapt to changing markets and tax laws. Our San Diego investors benefit from smarter, more efficient portfolios that grow tax-deferred and compound effectively. Partner with Imeson Wealth to strengthen your tax diversification and keep more of every investment dollar.
Estate & Trust Tax Planning
Effective estate planning preserves wealth and reduces the tax impact for future generations. Imeson Wealth specializes in estate and trust tax planning, seeking to minimize inheritance taxes and ensure proper wealth transfer. We craft customized estate and trust structures tailored to California’s regulations, focusing on estate tax reduction strategies and trust optimization. This helps assets pass efficiently to beneficiaries while reducing exposure to estate and inheritance taxes. Families throughout San Diego rely on our expertise to simplify estate complexity, strengthen intergenerational wealth, and work toward long-term confidence in their plan. Plan your estate with Imeson Wealth to achieve what matters most: your family’s financial future.
Hear From Our Real Clients
Positive: Professionalism, Responsiveness
Staying ahead of evolving tax laws demands more than filing; it requires active oversight. Imeson Wealth provides annual tax review and forecasting services to ensure optimal tax planning and sustained financial clarity. These yearly evaluations uncover new Read More
Nikki R.
Positive: Professionalism, Responsiveness
We still can’t believe how simple the process was for us. Kevin Roberts always returned calls and did what he said he would do. We would highly recommend working with him.
John L.
Roth Conversion Planning
I first of all personally appreciated the expediency of a response to my inquiry to sell my property via a phone call, an emailed offer, and an on-site visit. You should know that your team and contact’s expediency and professionalism is what set you apart from the other investors.
Marcia P.

Take the First Step Today
Ready to make your retirement more tax-efficient? Instantly book your personalized tax planning consultation with Imeson Wealth today. With CFP-led expertise, local San Diego tax insight, and proven strategies that minimize liabilities, it’s never been easier to take control of your financial future. Don’t wait, schedule your consultation now and start building lasting, tax-efficient wealth.
Schedule your free consultation today, and let’s start creating the plan you need to live the life you want.
Frequently Asked Questions
Disclosures:
Traditional IRA account owners have considerations to make before performing a Roth IRA conversion. These primarily include income tax consequences on the converted amount in the year of conversion, withdrawal limitations from a Roth IRA, and income limitations for future contributions to a Roth IRA. In addition, if you are required to take a required minimum distribution (RMD) in the year you convert, you must do so before converting to a Roth IRA.
There is no guarantee that a diversified portfolio will enhance overall returns or outperform a non-diversified portfolio. Diversification does not protect against market risk.
Asset allocation does not ensure a profit or protect against a loss.
LPL Financial representatives offer access to Trust Services through The Private Trust Company N.A., an affiliate of LPL Financial.
Contributions to a traditional IRA may be tax-deductible in the contribution year, with current income tax due at withdrawal. Withdrawals prior to age 59 ½ may result in a 10% IRS penalty tax in addition to current income tax.
This information is not intended to be a substitute for specific individualized tax or legal advice. We suggest that you discuss your specific situation with a qualified tax or legal advisor.
Content in this material is for general information only and not intended to provide specific advice or recommendations for any individual.
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