Fiscal cliff looming? Ten tax moves to make now.

Americans are facing an unprecedented tax increase of nearly $500 billion on Jan. 1, 2013, from the so-called "fiscal cliff." Are you ready? Here are 10 year-end tax strategies I recommend:

7. Withdraw money from nonqualified annuities if you are over age 59-1/2

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A poster hangs in the halls of the US Internal Revenue Service building in Washington, D.C., in this March file photo. Here are 10 tax strategies to protect yourself from the tax increases that make up part of the 'fiscal cliff.'

Non-qualified annuities are insurance contracts that you buy yourself, rather than through an employer. Withdrawals from annuities are taxed as ordinary income.

A withdrawal of $200,000 in taxable income will cost $9,200 less in 2012 than in 2013 at the top tax rate.

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