What would be the benefits of a MBD for me? I’m late 50s and already have a Vanguard traditional and Roth IRA from prior employer rollovers. Once I retire/leave have 6 months to rollover funds otherwise have to pay fees so would rollover pre $ to traditional and post to Roth anyway.

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I'm a bit confused on how your other details are relevant. The benefit of megabackdoor is huge. It's an additional 30kish a year that you can put into a Roth account. It may go away depending on if the current bill passes so we will see.

If you're maxing out all other retirement accounts, the only options left are megabackdoor or brokerage. The megabackdoor is wayyy better than a brokerage account because you put after tax dollars in and get tax free dollars out. For a brokerage you'd put after tax dollars in and get taxed on gains when you withdraw.

Correct. I don't know the exact details of PwC's in service distribution, but you'd essentially want to move all after tax contributions into Roth as soon as feasible. Maybe that's every quarter or something. Like you said, any earnings would go to a traditional account, but if you do it early enough the earnings would be minimal.

So 95%+ (depending on earnings) of the post tax balance would have gone into your Roth IRA as soon as feasible, and it would've grown tax free.

Going forward (assuming the MBD doesn't go away), you need to make sure to do both steps. As for your current post tax balance, I guess you'll just need to leave it as is. Like you said, the earnings would go into traditional and the contributions would go into Roth. Had you been doing MBD correctly, all that money would be in your Roth IRA. Instead, you have an earnings portion that will be taxed as a traditional account when you withdraw.

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