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| Subject: Re: RMD strategy | Date: 8/9/2017 9:22 AM | |
| Author: MisterFungi | Number: 20440 of 21297 | |
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By a 'qualified account', I assume you're speaking of an employer sponsored retirement plan, such as a 401(k) or profit sharing plan? If so, you'd probably be better off doing a direct (agent-to-agent) rollover of the qualified plan balance to your Traditional IRA, which will be entirely tax neutral. Then you can do a Roth conversion using any 15% headroom. This will effectively reduce the RMD you'd otherwise have at 70.5. Bruce, I am late getting back to this. Thank you for this suggestion. Last year I moved the $ in my traditional IRA into my Roth (paying the tax on it), but I kept the traditional IRA open just in case I might need it for something later on. It sounds like your idea is that something. Yes, it's $ coming from my employee-sponsored retirement plan and would go into my Roth at Schwab. Also, my CPA is also a CFP. I had been using him (for > 30 years) solely to do my taxes. |
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