Year-End Roth Strategies

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Welcome everybody to the Directed IRA podcast.
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My name is Mark Koller.
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I'm here with the CEO and author of the book, the self-directed IRA handbook, second edition, the one and only Mr.
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Matt Sorensen.
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Welcome, everyone.
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Yeah, welcome.
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Thanks for being here.
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We're going to be talking about something you need to be thinking about.
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I worked on that intro for you.
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And yeah, you don't get like I don't even get a you know, thank you for that intro, Mark.
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Nothing like that.
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We have Mark here.
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He's my co-host.
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He's, you know.
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I was trying to, you know, you could say, thank you, Mark.
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That was a great introduction.
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We're so excited to be.
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But nothing.
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That's okay.
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That's all right.
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I was just trying to give you a little early Christmas love, but okay.
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Yeah, yeah.
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You know, we got we got uh Mark J.
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Kohler.
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I mean, you know who he is.
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He's a man that needs no introduction.
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You know, um, he's you know, good looking.
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You don't have to return the favor.
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You know, his favorite vegetables are baby carrots.
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All right.
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So many things out more.
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Oh my gosh.
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Oh my gosh.
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All right.
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Well, everybody, thanks for letting us banter a little bit and have some fun with you.
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We are excited to talk about year-end Roth strategies.
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And there's three, and we're gonna go hard and fast.
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We know how valuable your time is this time of year.
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So we want to get into it, save you money, make you money, help you self-direct your retirement into what you know is best.
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Like what is your favorite investment?
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We want to unlock that for you with three killer Roth strategies.
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Matt, what's number one?
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All right, can I say the all three of them?
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Because I want to give you a roadmap of where we're going so you're not surprised.
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Okay, we're gonna hit the Roth conversion, we're gonna hit the kids Roth IRA, and we're gonna hit the mega backdoor Roth.
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Okay, he's all got some year-end considerations you need to be thinking about.
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So let's hit number one, Roth conversion.
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Okay.
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Roth conversion is a year-end consideration in strategy because when you convert, in what tax year depends on when you're gonna pay the tax.
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So, for example, if you're sitting there thinking, I've got 50 grand in a traditional IRA, I want to convert to Roth, you might want to say, maybe I'll just wait until January 1st, 2026.
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And I'll just convert the whole 50K and I'll push that into 2026.
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That could be one way of thinking about it.
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Or you might be, hey Matt, I've got 600 grand in traditional IRA or traditional 401k funds.
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I really want the whole thing to be Roth.
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What should I be doing?
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Well, maybe you should be doing something we call Roth chunking.
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And right now is a perfect time of year.
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You got 600K, you've got a few options.
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You might want to say, I'll convert 300,000 in 2025 and 300,000 in 2026, and I'll break it up over two tax years.
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Or you might say, I'll take 200,000 in 2025, 200 in 2026, and 200k in 2027, and break it up over three years.
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I love it.
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And the driving factor, everybody, two words tax bracket.
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Because you want to find that sweet spot of where you're not jumping into a higher bracket, chunking too much, and you want to take advantage of a lower bracket up to a certain dollar amount.
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Plus, you've got to take into account, ooh, I've got some real estate write-offs over here, I've got some flow-through losses here and some capital losses, but I've got extra gains here.
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So you want to kind of distill down to what you think your taxable adjusted gross income is going to be.
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Sorry, those are two different things.
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Adjustable gross income, then you're going to back into your taxable income and go, okay, what bracket am I in?
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Because there's a big jump from the 12% to the 22%, and then from the 24% to the 32%.
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Those are the biggest jumps in the bracket world.
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And we want to make sure that we're finding that amount to chunk and spreading it out.
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So there's a lot to consider there.
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It's particular to every person, but that's the strategy.
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And you have until December 31st to pull the trigger.
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Now keep in mind, this is just about what amount do I want to convert to get on my 2025 return, or what do I want to push and wait into 2026 or chunk over time.
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So just an opportunity to be a little more strategic about it, minimize the tax burden on the Roth conversion.
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The upside of the Roth conversion is that money is now going to grow and come out entirely tax-free rather than those traditional dollars you you have right now or may have that are going to get taxed on the way out.
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So remember, we're going to have a lot of, we like to say, long-term gain on this.
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The short-term pain is this tax.
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We're going to try and minimize that by chunking it over time and being strategic, looking at our tax brackets, how much tax am I going to be paying on this conversion?
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Um, but just keep in mind the whole purpose of this is to get that tax-free bucket growing and coming out tax-free later.
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So that's the end goal.
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I love it.
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Now, before I share tip number two, I just want to add if your accountant has said you make too much money to do a Roth or talks this down or doesn't even bring it up, you have a terrible, may I repeat, terrible advisor because you can contribute to a Roth at any age, at any income level, through what's called the backdoor Roth method.
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We've got other podcasts and articles on this.
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It's a chapter in Matt's freaking book.
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Just do not listen to anybody that says you make too much money to use the Roth strategy.
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Topic for another day.
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Okay.
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Tip number two, Kid Roth.
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And I love Kid Roth.
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Oh my gosh, some of his songs, some of the best songs, especially summertime songs.
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I love his songs in the summer.
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But anyway, we also have what's called the Kid Roth.
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And that concept is if you've been supporting any family members, kids in particular, in this example, under age 18, over age 18, and they can play a role in your business that's legitimate, typically on a board of advisors, board of directors at the very least, let's not just pay taxes and give them money.
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Let's convert it to a payment to those kids through a methodology of a 1099 if they're over age 18, or an outside labored line if they're under age 18.
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Topic for another day.
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I've got chapters of that in my book, the Tax and Legal Playbook, and podcasts.
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But the point is, once you've paid the kids, which you need to do before December 31st with the proper method, and you've already helped them throughout the year.
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This is just a paper transaction.
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We got to document it.
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It unlocks the ability to open a Roth IRA for them and contribute through a gift or some of the income you've already given them.
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Lots of options.
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Matt, where do we go from the paying the kids to getting it in a Roth?
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Because that's the kind of that next hurdle.
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Yeah, and this is the thing people think, well, I just do a 529 for my kids or a covered out because there's no earned income requirement for the kid.
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But when you want to do a Roth IRA that's in your kid's name, this they have to have earned income.
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Because we want you to do your Roth IRA first.
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Okay.
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And you got a spouse, they're doing their Roth IRA.
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Your high income, you're doing the backdoor Roth IRA.
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Next, we're like, you got kids?
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Let's get them working in your business.
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Maybe you got a rental property, they're working on the rental property.
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Okay.
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And so we want to justify legitimate income that you can pay them so they have earned income.
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So now we have something called a kids Roth IRA, a directed IRA, which they could do a crypto kids Roth IRA, invest in crypto.
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They could use a regular kids Roth IRA and invest in other, they could buy stocks, they could invest in real estate, put them in on deals with you.
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A lot of options there on once that money is invested and in the account.
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But the mechanics is it is a kid Roth IRA.
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We have a special account app for this where you, as the parent or guardian, are responsible for the account.
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If your kids, you know, 15 years old, right, you're going to be doing the things for them and making the decisions.
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Once they're 18 or the age of majority, and depending on the state, they will have authority on the account, though.
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But we love the kids Roth IRA because one, it's a way to teach your kids about investing.
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We're not even in the great tax and investing strategies here, just like teaching your kids.
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Two, if you paid them out of your business, by the way, you got a tax deduction, reduced your taxable income, and then it went to your kids that are probably under the standard deduction, under 14 grand or whatever the standard deduction is.
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And so they don't even have to file a tax term or claim this as income.
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Three, we get the money in a Roth IRA.
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Now it's growing and coming out tax-free.
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How many of us have seen the chart where it's like, well, if you just started a Roth IRA 40 years ago, this is the numbers if you put it, if you started Roth IRA 50 years ago, okay.
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Oh great.
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Oh my god.
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I'm I'm I'm 40 years, I'm 45.
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I started it, you know, negative five.
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Okay.
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Think about this for your kid that's 15.
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If they just made annual contributions, getting a 9% return, you can get that as the S P 500 or if you're doing other great stuff, but just hang with me at least there.
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That account will be$6 million by the time they hit 65 of retirement account age.
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And the the difference is the early start.
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And so and so this can be a reality for your kids if you help them with that early start.
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So we love this strategy.
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Um, and it's a great way to uh not only get great tax savings, teach kids about investing, but get them on a journey to um learning how to invest and build wealth.
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Love it, love it.
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High five um ditto, two thumbs up.
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And I will also say for you grandparents out there, there's an extra step involved utilizing your children, your adult parent, your adult children that are the parents of your grandchildren.
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If you can involve them in the planning process, this can still work for a grandchild.
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So what's the call to action here?
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I know it can be a little complicated.
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Please get a year-end consult with one of our tax lawyers.
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You can go to KKOS Lawyers, book a call with it.
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We're out about five days to maybe 10 at times, because this is our busiest time of the season, but you got plenty of time during the month of December to do the proper paperwork, to document the write-off, get the account open, get it funded, and put this gift of a Roth IRA in their Christmas stocking.
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Super powerful.
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Yeah.
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Now remember the contribution deadline isn't until April 15th.
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The reason we're bringing this up at year end is they have to have their earned income in 2025 if we want to do a 2025 contribution that doesn't have to go in until April 15th of 2026.
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Another thing to think about is those of you that don't are a small business, don't have a business to pay your kids from, but your kid has a job that they work in the summer or a part-time job, maybe they're in high school, they'd be paying five grand through the year that they've spent it all on, you know, kids, teenage stuff that they spend money on.
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You can still fund the five grand into their Roth IRA because they did have earned income.
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So it doesn't have to be that income that they made.
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You can still help them by funding that for the parent or the grandparent getting that into their Roth IRA.
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I love this.
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I literally remember where I was sitting when I had a phone call with a client that was like, Yeah, I wish I could do a Roth IRA for my daughter, but I he goes, you know, it's in February or March now.
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He goes, but I never put her on the books of the business and paid her last year.
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And I really wanted to fund her Roth for a few thousand.
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I go, well, how old is she?
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He goes, 16.
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I go, did she babysit at all last year?
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He's like, holy crap, she's babysitting every weekend.
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I go, how much she make on a normal weekend?
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He goes, she'll make 50 bucks, maybe 75, 100, do it a couple families or whatever.
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I'm like, dude, you times that by 50 weekends, hypothetically, at 100 bucks a weekend, we got her five grand right there.
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He goes, Well, she already spent it.
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Doesn't matter.
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She didn't file a tax return.
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Doesn't matter.
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All you have to do is be able to show she has earned income babysitting.
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And if the IRS really wants to go interview all your neighbors, knock yourself out.
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This is not a high-risk issue.
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Putting money away is what the government is trying to incentivize us to do.
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They are giving all these saver credits and 401k tax credits and all these things are trying to encourage Americans to start saving sooner.
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They're not crashing down on people for strategies like this.
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They're trying to encourage it.
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So do not think this is a high-risk issue.
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Get your kids involved, get the money there, and let's get this Roth area going.
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All right.
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Number three, Matt, roll it out.
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All right.
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Number three, we got to go fast and furious here, is the mega backdoor Roth.
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Now we're going to talk about this in two times.
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I just like the name of that.
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I just like the name of that.
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It just sounds cool, right?
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I love mega.
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I love backdoors.
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I love Roth.
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I mean, I'm all in.
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I know we used to name a band.
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That's just like a great band name.
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You know, they're opening up for KISS.
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We got mega backdoor Roth.
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Yeah, like Mega Death.
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Mega backdoor.
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Mega Roth.
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Um, so okay.
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So let's talk.
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We're gonna talk about this in two scenarios here.
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One is a job where you work what you have a or a spouse that has a 401k at work, and then two, any of you self-employed doing maybe the solo case strategy.
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Okay.
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You take the worker, I'll take the self-employed.
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Okay, all right.
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If you're the you're the person at a job that has a 401k, not your business, um, you can do the mega backdoor Roth.
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About 60% of 401k plans allow for something called the after-tax contribution.
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This is what you do to do this mega backdoor Roth.
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And what this is is, is it's a way you can put more money in your 401k up to 70 grand for 2025.
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Let's say you've put 10 grand in so far this year.
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You put in some money, you put in five grand.
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Let's say the company you work at did a match, they put in five grand.
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So you got 10 grand in.
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Well, you have up to you have 60,000 more dollars you can put in your 401k.
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Now, a lot of people are like, but Matt, I thought I could do up to 23,5 as an employee.
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Okay, we got 13.5 left as a regular employee contribution that you can do as Roth dollars.
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How do I get the rest?
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I still got 46,500 to go.
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Well, this is where we're gonna do, so that'd be minus the five that the company put in.
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So I got 41,500 left to go.
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This is where you do an after-tax employee contribution into the 401k that you can roll out to a Roth IRA, or you can convert in the plan to Roth 401k dollars.
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Generally, for day job 401k, you're gonna roll it out to a Roth IRA.
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After tax employee contributions do not get stuck in the plan.
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You don't have to hit retirement age, you don't have to quit the job to roll it out.
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After tax employee contributions can get rolled out over to a Roth IRA, but this is critical for year end.
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So you've got to make the contributions by year end with your employer 401k to be able to execute on this for 2025 contribution rule purposes.
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Now, we have other content on this articles, podcast episodes on the mega backdoor Roth.
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We want to highlight that strategy here because it is critical for year end, particularly for those that have a 401k at work where you need to get the mechanics done by December 31st.
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Perfect explanation.
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Now, for you small business owners that you're like, freaking hey, I wish someone was matching my 401k.
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I hear your pain, I feel it.
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I uh you understand.
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But you get the blessing of more flexibility.
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You have the opportunity to do what's called a solo 401k, which gives you a lot of options to dial up compensation, dial it down, find that sweet spot, throw your spouse on payroll for him or her, and bring them into play on this.
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So the concept is if you're a sole proprietor, small business owner, S Corp owner, but you don't have employees.
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And again, we have so much more content on the solo 401k.
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In fact, I'm gonna say this right now.
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People, while our speaking, please, it's already on our website at kkoslawyers.com.
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We have a webinar on the solo 401k year-in strategy where the government's giving you a tax credit to set up the solo 401k.
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You actually make money to set up the 401k.
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It's unbelievable.
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Like, this is not a deduction, it is a tax credit.
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The government's like, here's some money, go get this done.
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So it's it's amazing.
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So you have the flexibility to do this, you pull the trigger before year-end, you get your solo 401k set up, then you can dial it up, your payroll level to the perfect amount come January.
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You can back into it.
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This is where the consult would be very helpful with someone kind of really manufacturing this and and um figuring out the details that would apply to you.
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But it's not that difficult.
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You can dial up your salary and your contribution to hit the mega amount.
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And it can be that Roth amount.
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You may even say, we had such a kick ass year, I'm gonna do the same thing for my spouse.
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Now you double down.
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Holy crap, now you're talking about 150 grand plus in a Roth IRA.
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Talk about the momentum you can build with that sucker.
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So this is all at your fingertips.
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It takes a consultation that's it could be extremely affordable.
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We charge like a thousand bucks to set up a 401k, and you meet with a real tax lawyer on Zoom.
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It's built for you to get a tax credit, you get a deduction to do it, and a tax credit to do it.
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I'm freaking, you're making money, people, to do this.
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So take action on this.
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If you have the wherewithal, and I know it's tight out there for so many of you, I understand that.
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But there's other business owners that have the year of their life.
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Let's not just give that away to the IRS more tax dollars.
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This is a great strategy.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And we're of course putting this money in as Roth dollars.
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So we're not getting a tax deduction, but we're building a bucket of tax-free wealth that's gonna build.
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But there are the deduction you're gonna get for the cost of setting it up.
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There's a tax credit that the government's offering right now.
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That's hitting that the Ciculous Lawyers webinar that we've hit.
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So get over there for that as well.
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And then um the other thing I want to say on this is for you that are self-employed, you still got to be thinking about this at your end because where do these contributions go?
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Your employee contributions, whether this is the regular ones or the after-tax ones, on your W-2.
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If you're an S-corp owner, you gotta be thinking about that right now, because that W-2 is gonna be hitting you in January of 2026 and it's gonna be due.
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Now, there are some rules on you don't actually have to get the money in until later.
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So don't be careful if you start reading up on this, even some of our stuff where it's like, well, the contributions in solo casen's due until the tax return deadline.
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Yeah, but you need the plan set up for any of you that are new, and we need to make sure for US Corp owners, which is the most common business owner doing a solo K, that your W-2's dialed in because that's gonna be due right around the corner here in January.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Look, there's a few moving parts, but can have a big payoff.
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Well, everybody, Merry Christmas, and you're welcome.
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And uh thanks for being here.
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We love the topic of Roth IRAs.
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