{"id":7545,"date":"2024-08-15T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=7545"},"modified":"2024-08-15T08:00:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T12:00:09","slug":"the-mega-backdoor-roth-is-usually-not-going-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=7545","title":{"rendered":"The mega backdoor Roth is usually not going to work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have received more inquiries about after-tax voluntary contributions in the past two weeks than in the last 20 years. Why? Well, a lot of people are reading up on these Mega Backdoor Roth articles online.<\/p>\n<p>A mega backdoor Roth is designed specifically for those with a 401(k) plan. According to these articles, participants can put up to $46,000 of post-tax dollars in 2024 into their 401(k) plan and then roll it into a mega backdoor Roth, which is either a Roth IRA or Roth 401(k). The article will mention caveats as if they\u2019re nothing, but 99.99% of the time it won\u2019t work. That\u2019s because the mega backdoor Roth feature in a 401(k) plan will subject those after-tax contributions to an ACP test and since people who would use this feature are highly compensated employees, it\u2019s not going to work, even if the plan is a Safe Harbor 401(k).<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='{title}' st_url='{url}' displayText='ShareThis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have received more inquiries about after-tax voluntary contributions in the past two weeks than in the last 20 years. Why? Well, a lot of people are reading up on these Mega Backdoor Roth articles online. A mega backdoor Roth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=7545\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='{title}' st_url='{url}' displayText='ShareThis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7546,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7545\/revisions\/7546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}