Are You Ready to Retire Early?
Money Guy Show
Brian Preston, CPA, CFP®, PFS and Bo Hanson, CFA, CFP® | Fee-Only Fiduciary Advisors
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🗓️ 10 June 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:17.0 | We're going to move on to Anker's question. It says, when starting the 401k journey Roth 401k was not a thing. Now I find myself in my 40s with no Roth dollars. |
| 0:20.8 | Healthy 401k dollars and I'm in a higher tax bracket now. Should I prioritize |
| 0:26.1 | regular 401k or Roth 401k? All right, so Anker, we don't know enough about all of your different financial |
| 0:35.0 | variables to be able to give you like specific advice around this but here's what we |
| 0:39.5 | say generally if you are in a lower tax situation, we define lower taxes if you add up your |
| 0:46.2 | marginal federal rate and you add up your state marginal rate and it's below 25%, |
| 0:50.5 | there's a really good chance that Roth makes sense for you. Now if you're in a higher |
| 0:55.2 | tax situation, meaning you add your marginal federal and your marginal state, and it's above |
| 1:00.0 | 30 percent, you're in a higher tax situation. |
| 1:02.6 | And we would argue that every dollar you put on the pre-tax side |
| 1:05.6 | of your 401k can be super, super valuable. |
| 1:08.6 | I mean, you can think about it, $1 goes in, saves me $30 in taxes. It's kind of like a 30% imputed rate of return |
| 1:15.6 | today so it's really really hard to walk away from that current year tax |
| 1:19.7 | benefit. But we see this all the time Brian people get later on in their careers later on in life and they've not yet begun building Roth dollars. |
| 1:29.0 | One, do high-income folks have an option to build Roth and two doesn't mean that he has to start |
| 1:34.6 | building Roth dollars right now today. Well anchor I want to make you feel |
| 1:37.4 | better about something. There's a trend that's been going on with tax laws that have been set up coming out of Washington, D.C. |
| 1:45.3 | is that we have this timer in the background for all of our retirement savings, |
| 1:49.9 | especially the traditional ones that you've been funding because you're in a higher tax |
| 1:53.7 | bracket where you knew it's 70 and a half you were going to have to start making required |
| 1:58.5 | minimum distributions. |
| 1:59.5 | Oh now like 73 or 75. |
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