Americans who are using this “backdoor Roth” tax strategy may be out of luck as the House Ways and Means Committee legislative tax proposals would prohibit some of its uses. The provision is part of the tax increases aiming to partly fund the $3.5 economic reconciliation bill.

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The backdoor Roth strategy entails opening a traditional IRA, make your desired contribution, and then, at a later date, convert the funds to a Roth IRA, according to Charles Schwab.

“So it’s effectively a wash for income tax purposes over the years,” Wheelwright says. “The result is a hyper-funding of a Roth that then grows tax-free. If removed, retirement funds in a Roth will be severely limited.”

Now, the Ways and Means Committee intends to close these so-called “back-door” Roth IRA strategies, with a provision that eliminates Roth conversions for both IRAs and employer-sponsored plans for single taxpayers (or taxpayers married filing separately) with taxable income over $400,000; married taxpayers filing jointly with taxable income over $450,000, and heads of households with taxable income over $425,000, according to the text of the bill.

This provision applies to distributions, transfers, and contributions made in taxable years beginning after December 31, 2031.

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“Another proposal would do away with Roth conversions entirely,” Frankel says. “Either way, the elimination of the backdoor Roth strategy could deal a serious blow to the retirement savings plans of many Americans, and not just the super-rich,”

“If the change passes and goes into effect in 2022, we could see a rush of people converting their accounts while they still can,” he adds.

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The provision alone would help raise $739 million, according to data from the Joint Committee on Taxation.

In total, this provision, and others in the proposal, would raise approximately $2.1 trillion over 10 years to help pay for the fiscal year 2022 budget, the National Association of Plan Advisors says.

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