Practitioner Tax Planning Series

The Retirement Planning Window: Coordinating Roth Conversions, Social Security, IRMAA, RMDs and More

A multi-year framework for coordinating tax decisions across the years before and after retirement.

Retirement planning decisions rarely stand alone. Roth conversions, Social Security, IRMAA, required minimum distributions, capital-gain harvesting, charitable planning, and state taxes can interact across multiple tax years.

Who should attend

Practitioners advising taxpayers approaching or living in retirement.

Learning objectives

  • Identify the years in which income can be deliberately accelerated or deferred.
  • Coordinate Roth conversion analysis with IRMAA and the two-year lookback.
  • Model Social Security taxation, RMDs, capital-gain stacking, and charitable strategies.
  • Document assumptions and revisit the plan as markets, income, and law change.

Two-hour agenda

  1. Mapping the retirement planning window
  2. Roth conversion analysis
  3. Social Security, RMDs, and QCDs
  4. IRMAA and capital-gain interactions
  5. Multi-year implementation and review
Social Security disclosure: Owen S Arnoff and/or Wealth Protection Insurance & Financial Services are not affiliated with or endorsed by the Social Security Administration or any other government agency.