SECURE Act Consequences: Currently, under the IRS rules, those older than 70 1/2 must take withdrawals and can no longer contribute to their
traditional IRA. This differs from a Roth IRA per IRS rules, which allows contributions at any age, as long as your income is below a certain level: less than $122,000 for single filing households and less than $193,000 for those who are married and jointly file.
A "backdoor" Roth IRA contribution, at its simplest, involves making a contribution to a
traditional IRA using after-tax dollars and then performing an immediate tax-free Roth conversion.
This possibility might have, for example, encouraged John Smith to convert $100,000 of his
traditional IRA to a Roth in December 2016.
That puts her over the upper MAGI limits for
traditional IRA deductions ($73,000) and Roth IRA contributions ($135,000), mentioned previously.
If you want a tax deduction for 2018 but you're not actually putting the money in your
traditional IRA until after Dec.
Finhabits, a bilingual digital investment advisor specializing in making retirement and investments services more inclusive, has been selected by the Washington State department of commerce as a Roth and
traditional IRA provider for its small business retirement marketplace, the company said.
At year-end 2015, 31% of these investors were under age 40, whereas only 16% of
traditional IRA investors were in that age bracket.
A report from NerdWallet argues that, for most savers, at largely all income levels, utilizing a Roth individual retirement account (IRA) can generate significantly more retirement wealth compared with a
traditional IRA.