Advantage: IRA withdrawals are taxable income, Roth IRAWhat, if anything, would be the advantage of converting an IRA to a RothIRA?Thanks, Joanna
withdrawals are tax free.
Disadvantage: The entire balance transferred in the conversion
counts as taxable income in the year the
conversion occurs.
Thus, the greater your taxable income in the year of conversion
the worse are the odds of gaining by the transaction (that is,
the greater the percentage of the IRA that has to be liquidated
in order to pay the taxes).
Shane Mage
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