About Gold IRA Companies by State: Who We Are and How We Work

Gold IRA Companies by State exists because the state half of gold IRA coverage is either missing or fake. Federal rules get explained everywhere; what a buyer in Texas actually pays versus a buyer in California — the bullion sales-tax threshold, the state's hand in your distributions — is usually covered by auto-generated pages with no source and no date. We publish the state map only where the facts are checked, and say "verification pending" where they are not.

What we do

We cover one question per jurisdiction: what does this state do to a gold IRA, at purchase, at distribution, and in the vault. Every state page carries the same rated set of companies — scored on a published, weighted methodology — so the only variable between two states is the state. Where a state's rules are in flux (a bill filed, a threshold challenged), the page says so.

Editorial standards

Methodology first. No company can buy a score, a ranking, or the removal of a con.
State tax claims trace to primary sources: revenue department publications, comptroller rules, statutes — each with a check date on the page.
A state page publishes only after its facts are verified; until then it stays out of the sitemap and shows a pending notice.
We explain rule structure and thresholds, not today's metal price — spot changes daily, statutes don't.
No individualized investment advice — pages explain mechanics and trade-offs, including the unflattering ones.

Who writes this

Marcus Webb is a state-finance editor who maps where US retirement savers pay the least to hold physical gold — sales tax on bullion, state treatment of IRA distributions, and where approved storage actually sits. The desk is led by Marcus Webb, senior editor, state tax & retirement geography, based in Santa Fe, NM.

His background is state-finance-side: eight years covering how US states tax tangible assets — which revenue departments exempt bullion and where they set thresholds, how retirement distributions are treated state by state, and where approved depositories physically operate. At this desk that map is pointed at retirement accounts: what two investors in different states actually pay for the same gold IRA, year after year.

What he covers, specifically:

State sales-tax treatment of bullion and monetized coins
State income-tax treatment of IRA distributions and exclusions
IRS-approved depository geography and state-run vaults
Gold IRA company fee structures and minimums
Purchase-threshold rules that change dealer quotes

The method — every page starts from a primary document: the revenue department publication for sales-tax treatment, the state tax form instructions for distribution treatment, the depository's own disclosure for storage. One honest boundary: Marcus is not a CPA, CFP, or attorney — nothing here is individualized tax, legal, or investment advice, and where a question needs a licensed professional, the pages say so and cite the source that decides it.

Written & fact-checked by

Marcus WebbSenior Editor, State Tax & Retirement Geography · Santa Fe, NM

Marcus Webb has spent eight years covering the state-by-state mechanics of owning tangible assets: which revenue departments exempt bullion and at what thresholds, how each state taxes retirement distributions, and where IRS-approved depositories physically operate. At Gold IRA Companies by State he applies that map to retirement accounts — because federal IRA rules are identical everywhere, and almost every real cost difference between two investors in different states comes from state tax law and storage logistics. Every claim on this site traces to a primary source — a state revenue department publication, a comptroller's rule, a depository's own disclosure — each with a check date. He does not hold CPA, CFP, or attorney credentials and never implies otherwise; where a question needs a licensed professional, the pages say so and cite the source that decides it.

Covers: State sales-tax treatment of bullion and monetized coins · State income-tax treatment of IRA distributions and exclusions · IRS-approved depository geography and state-run vaults · Gold IRA company fee structures and minimums · Purchase-threshold rules that change dealer quotes

More about the desk · How we rate · Disclosure

How we're funded

The site may earn commissions when readers open accounts with companies we cover. That money never touches ratings — the details, including what we'd refuse, are in our affiliate disclosure.

Facts across the site were last checked October 2026. Questions or corrections: contact page.