Retirement tax questions


@GeorgeDenseff wrote:

You can convert the ROTH IRA to a traditional IRA at anytime.  Contact your bank or brokerage to make the change. That way you can still contribute to an IRA: There are no income limits for contributing to a traditional IRA.


That is not correct.   A Traditional IRA is before tax money and yiu can convert that to a after-tax Roth by paying the tax on the amount, but you can never go the other way around.  Roth IRA's can never be converted to a Traditional IRA.  It is not possible to convert after-tax money to before-tax money.

 

You can have current year Roth *contributions* recharactorized to a Traditional  IRA which is NOT a conversion and only applies to new current years contributions.

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