Taxes are the single biggest factor that separates people from their retirement dreams.” That’s a quote from today’s guest, Ed Slott, a nationally recognized IRA distribution expert, CPA, and bestselling author. If you’re like most members of the Financial Independence Retire Early (FIRE) community, you understand the massive tax challenges inherent in retirement planning. Strategies such as the mega-backdoor Roth are popular because the FIRE community loves to optimize for taxes. Ed does, too. His book, The New Retirement Savings Time Bomb, is about how we can diversify and manage our tax risk so that we can achieve our financial independence and early retirement dreams. So … what should we do? Listen to the episode to find out why Ed is a huge proponent of Roth IRAs. _______________ Subscribe via iTunes: https://affordanything.com/itunes Full show notes for the episode: https://affordanything.com/episode307 Get our show notes in your inbox: https://affordanything.com/shownotes Follow us! IG: https://instagram.com/paulapant Twitter: https://twitter.com/affordanything FB: https://facebook.com/affordanything Community: https://affordanything.com/community #affordanything #edslott #taxsavingstrategies