Backdoor and Mega Backdoor Roth strategies offer powerful ways to boost tax-advantaged retirement savings for high earners. Here are the core points from the lesson:
- A Backdoor Roth involves making a non-deductible IRA contribution and quickly converting it to a Roth IRA, but you must avoid having pre-tax IRA balances or you'll face tax via the pro-rata rule
- Mega Backdoor Roths allow after-ta