Foreign Funding?

I have a client who lives and works in Hong Kong, she is a US Citizen. The first $110,000 of income is not subject to US taxation, (but is taxable on the Hong Kong side) Income above $110K is subject to both US and Hong Kong taxation; her income is $250K+. She has maintained her deductible and non-deductible IRA accounts here. I would like to take her non-deductible IRA and convert it to a Roth and have her continue to fund the Roth, using the “back door” approach, since her income is too high to fund it directly. My question is: does she qualify for funding an IRA even though she lives outside the US and is working for a foreign company?



Yes, she has taxable earned income reportable on US return.

Could you clarifiy some of the terminology you are using. There are only pre-tax IRA and Roth IRA accounts. There may be non-deductible basis and deductible pre-tax amounts pre-tax IRA accounts. When you do a Roth conversion. The Roth conversion is pro rata of the total non-deductible balances and total pre-tax balances in all traditional, SEP and SIMPLE IRA accounts combined.

Thanks for the reply!  

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