I’m a graduate student living on a graduate student salary. I know I can only contribute up to my modified adjusted gross income into the Roth. But could also sell some investments in my taxable account to make up the difference between what I can fund out of my current income and the maximum I could contribute to the Roth?
That’s the question Jeffrey Levine, chief planning officer of Buckingham Wealth Partners, answered in this episode of Ask the Hammer.
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