{"id":280995,"date":"2025-11-13T19:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/280995\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T19:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:29:10","slug":"irs-announces-roth-ira-income-limits-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/280995\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS announces Roth IRA income limits for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kseniya Ovchinnikova | Moment | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The IRS has unveiled the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/roth-ira\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roth individual retirement account<\/a>\u00a0contribution and income limits for 2026.<\/p>\n<p>In its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/newsroom\/401k-limit-increases-to-24500-for-2026-ira-limit-increases-to-7500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">release<\/a> on Thursday, the agency increased the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/ira\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IRA<\/a> contribution limit to $7,500, up from $7,000 in 2025. 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That&#8217;s up from between $150,000 and $165,000 in 2025. Those taxpayers can make partial Roth contributions.<\/p>\n<p>Taxpayers using either of those filing statuses can make a full Roth contribution if their MAGI is under $153,000. They cannot contribute to a Roth at all if their MAGI is above $168,000.<\/p>\n<p>For married couples filing jointly, the income phase-out range increased to between $242,000 and $252,000, up from between $236,000 and $246,000 for 2025. Those taxpayers can make partial Roth contributions.<\/p>\n<p>Married couples filing jointly can make a full Roth contribution if their MAGI is under $242,000. They cannot contribute to a Roth at all if their MAGI is above $252,000.<\/p>\n<p>The phaseout range for married filing separately is not subject to an annual cost-of-living adjustment, according to the IRS, and remains between $0 and $10,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kseniya Ovchinnikova | Moment | Getty Images The IRS has unveiled the\u00a0Roth individual retirement account\u00a0contribution and income limits&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[879,4497,4615,45,161,49,48,4950,133,2518,11127,43581,86418,43582,131,11125,132,7712,56183,11126,8909],"class_list":["post-280995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-investing","tag-breaking-news-politics","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-estate-planning","tag-finance","tag-financial-planning","tag-government-taxation-and-revenue","tag-individual-retirement-accounts","tag-internal-revenue-service","tag-national-taxes","tag-personal-finance","tag-personal-saving","tag-personalfinance","tag-retirement-planning","tag-roth-iras","tag-tax-planning","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}