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Roth or Traditional: The Decision Rule
It is one comparison: your marginal rate now against your expected rate in retirement. Everything else is a tiebreak, and at equal rates the two are identical to the dollar.
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It is one comparison: your marginal rate now against your expected rate in retirement. Everything else is a tiebreak, and at equal rates the two are identical to the dollar.

For most people holding the same index, no. On $100,000 over five years in a taxable account the tax difference is $312.46, which is about $62 a year. Here are the three cases where it genuinely does matter.
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