Monday was Inauguration Day. We also have a new Congress. When it comes to retirement accounts, one rule that the new Congress should consider changing immediately is the income limit rule that applies to Roth IRA contributions.

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Guess what’s on sale right now? Taxes. The taxable income brackets for 2024 (ordinary income tax rates) are as follows.

If you're a high earner, you may be able to get around the income limits by using the backdoor Roth IRA conversion strategy by making a nondeductible traditional IRA contribution and then converting those funds to a Roth IRA.

What is the Backdoor Roth strategy? High-income earners - those over the Roth IRA income threshold can make non-deductible contributions to a traditional IRA and then convert the traditional IRA to a Roth, thereby circumventing the income limitations.

A QCD is a distribution from an IRA that goes directly to a qualifying charity and is not included in the taxable income of the IRA owner. A QCD cannot be made from an employer plan. A QCD can be up to $100,000 a year, per individual.

Maybe you made a Roth IRA contribution for 2022 and then discovered your income was too high. You’d rather contribute to a Roth IRA or maybe not contribute at all. You can fix these issues by correcting your 2022 IRA contribution by the upcoming October 16, 2023, deadline.

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Moreover, legislation passed in 2020 allows tax deductions up to 100% of adjusted gross income (AGI) for cash contributions, this year only. Normally, such deductions are capped at 60% of AGI.