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The tax deferred annuity is used to keep the government from taxing your earnings for a certain period of time. It has two phases. It has the accumulation phase and then the distribution phase. During the accumulation phase the annuity grows untaxed as the investment compounds. Distribution is when the annuity is paid out.

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