Originally Posted by
kwri10s
This is a common misnomer that used to apply years ago. Now days if you retire with a retirement plan like we have, your tax bracket will either be the same or maybe 1-2% lower. There is no reason to wait for tax savings down the road. They won't be there.
I don't know, it depends upon the situation. Depending upon your income before retirement (which often includes spousal income), you could easily be in the 39.6% top bracket, and drop down to the 28% bracket. That is, unless tax rates change....and who knows how to plan for that?
However, I think it's a really good idea to convert IRA's to a Roth, the sooner the better, unless one is going into a lower tax rate pretty soon, as long as one has the money to pay for taxes. We converted an IRA into a Roth several years ago, sucked it up and paid the taxes, and now it's worth triple the value. I would not want to pay taxes on the higher amount! If only the market would massively crash, we'd convert everything we could, and pay less in taxes.