Not exact matches
Although you don't have to pay
taxes on the
money contributed to a 403 (b) or
Regular IRA now, you will have to pay
tax on it, as well as the accumulated returns, when you receive the
money after retirement.
I take it to mean that you have
money in a Roth TRA account but it isn't invested into a stock fund, or that you have the
money ready to go in a
regular bank account and will be making a 2015 contribution into the actual IRA before
tax day this year, and the 2016 contribution either at the same time or soon
after.
The end result (again, assuming you did not have any previous
money in pre-
tax IRAs, so you don't have issues with the pro-rata rule) is the same as a
regular Roth IRA contribution, which is better than a non-deductible Traditional IRA contribution because the earnings are
after -
tax too.
You could put
money in a
regular taxable mutual fund or brokerage account, paying
taxes on your investment income every year, and racking up more
tax liability when you sold your shares
after their value had risen.
This frequent turnover of fund investors AND the
regular distribution of capital gains from the funds themselves leads to
regular capital gain
taxes, leaving less
after -
tax money to be reinvested in a new actively managed fund, further reducing the active investor's chances at «beating the market.»
Employer plans can now offer the opportunity to move 401k or 403b
money from a
regular (pre-
tax) account to a designated Roth account (an
after -
tax account) within the plan.
Later, when you start to withdraw
money from the account, it's
taxed like
regular income — as long as you make the withdrawals
after the age of 59 1/2.
When it came time to pay the IRS
after filing my
tax return, I had to dip into my savings for the
money, which felt more like a huge, unwanted penalty than it did paying one's
regular taxes.