Options on investing for retirement/long term savings (decades)

You can still do Traditional IRA even if phased out of Roth IRA:

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You can still do Traditional IRA even if phased out of Roth IRA:

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Completing the sentence: ...and then convert to the ROTH IRA anyways.

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When I back door it to an already existing Roth, does it technically close the traditional IRA account or just empty it?

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With Vanguard it just empties. They know what people are doing now and keep them open. I imagine everyone else does the same thing now.

Note: if you have any other IRAs (for example, you rolled over a 401k into one) you may not be able to do this without significant tax implications.