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The distinction is critical, because each type offers various benefits and is taxed differently. The short story: A traditional IRA gets you a tax break today, but you pay taxes at withdrawal.
Meanwhile, a Roth IRA gets you a future tax break in exchange for contributing after-tax money today. However, you can still make an after-tax, or non-deductible, contribution to a traditional IRA. In contrast, contributions to a Roth IRA are made with after-tax income.
Like a traditional IRA, the Roth allows you to defer tax on any dividends and capital gains in the account. For Roth IRAs, you can take out any contributions to account at any time without paying tax. However, for traditional IRAs, the amount that you owe taxes on also depends on whether you were able to contribute with pre-tax money or not. The Roth IRA tends to be more flexible. Any unqualified withdrawals that exceed your contributions, though, are subject to a penalty tax.
These exceptions include being disabled, using the money to buy a first home, facing high medical expenses and other unusual scenarios. To simplify this distinction further, financial advisers often ask their clients whether they expect to be in a higher or lower tax bracket in the future than they are now.
If clients expect to be in a lower bracket, it might be better to go with a traditional IRA. If higher, then the Roth may make more sense. And as we roll around to tax season, remember that you have until Tax Day, usually April 15, to deposit your contributions for the prior year.
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