Should I Slow Down Saving to Buy a Car?
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Brian Preston, CPA, CFP®, PFS and Bo Hanson, CFA, CFP® | Fee-Only Fiduciary Advisors
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🗓️ 18 December 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, we've got Andrew B. |
| 0:09.0 | He says, my employer has started to allow in-plan Roth conversions. |
| 0:13.8 | How does one decide how much traditional or the match to convert to Roth? |
| 0:17.8 | Is this an example or a reason to take it to the next level? |
| 0:22.2 | I'll enter the second part first. Yes. It is a time when it might make sense to take to the next |
| 0:27.5 | level because this gets incredibly nuanced and incredibly complicated when you're starting to do |
| 0:32.0 | mega backdoor Ross. And let me, can I lay out what a mega backdoor Roth is? |
| 0:37.0 | Yeah, well, you definitely need to because I think Andrew, he's asking, he sees that |
| 0:40.3 | somebody has made Roth conversions, in plan conversions available. |
| 0:44.3 | That tells me, whoever designed your employer's plan, they were designing to add additional |
| 0:50.3 | features. |
| 0:51.3 | And Bo is about to go over that. |
| 0:52.3 | But you didn't even ask Andrew what this kind of, |
| 0:54.2 | you're asking how to, you know, should I take advantage of this? Let Bo blow your mind with this |
| 0:58.8 | cool planning opportunity of mega backdoor Roth contributions. Yeah, so in plan conversion is one |
| 1:04.8 | piece of that. What it's basically saying is that you have some assets inside of your 401k that can |
| 1:10.4 | be converted to Roth inside of the plan. |
| 1:13.4 | Now, what most people think of when they think of Roth conversions is I take some pre-tax dollars |
| 1:17.6 | and I convert them to Roth dollars and that becomes a taxable event. |
| 1:21.6 | A lot of folks will do that with their employer match. |
| 1:23.7 | Maybe I'm maxing out my Roth salary deferral and my employer match goes in pre-tax |
| 1:29.4 | and I want to convert that. Those are all |
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