Philliefan33
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The dollar amounts in my scenario are not large enough to lose sleep over, but I still want to figure out how to do this.
We have been in the income range where Roth IRAs are not allowed/contributions to TIRAs have to be after taxes. I've contributed (non-deductible) for a few years, a total of 18K. This account is the only TIRA that I own. All other retirement money is in Roth or 401K accounts. I always planned to do a back-door Roth with this account, but our tax returns were already pretty complicated the past two years and I just didn't feel like having to fill out another form. I want to do the conversion this year.
This year, I received my share of a class-action suit regarding a pension buyout twenty years ago: $150. I had the $150 transferred directly to the TIRA, it was considered a rollover and was not taxed.
As I understand it, if I do a Roth conversion and the value of the TIRA is $18,150, I will owe taxes only on the $150. If the value is more, due to investment growth, I pay taxes on "X-18K". But what if the value of my account is less than 18K? With the recent volatility in the market, this is a possibility. Do I owe taxes on the $150 regardless of the overall value of the account?
We have been in the income range where Roth IRAs are not allowed/contributions to TIRAs have to be after taxes. I've contributed (non-deductible) for a few years, a total of 18K. This account is the only TIRA that I own. All other retirement money is in Roth or 401K accounts. I always planned to do a back-door Roth with this account, but our tax returns were already pretty complicated the past two years and I just didn't feel like having to fill out another form. I want to do the conversion this year.
This year, I received my share of a class-action suit regarding a pension buyout twenty years ago: $150. I had the $150 transferred directly to the TIRA, it was considered a rollover and was not taxed.
As I understand it, if I do a Roth conversion and the value of the TIRA is $18,150, I will owe taxes only on the $150. If the value is more, due to investment growth, I pay taxes on "X-18K". But what if the value of my account is less than 18K? With the recent volatility in the market, this is a possibility. Do I owe taxes on the $150 regardless of the overall value of the account?