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California is a community-property state with no estate tax, but ordinary income — including a Roth conversion — is taxed by the Franchise Tax Board on top of federal tax, up to 13.3% at the top rate.
The planning math in California is usually federal plus state, not federal alone. A conversion, a large IRA withdrawal, or a pension lump sum is ordinary income to the Franchise Tax Board. That state layer is why a “just convert it all this year” plan copied from a no-income-tax state can cost a California household five figures they did not model. California has no state estate tax, so the conversion case here is income-tax and IRMAA management — not a state death-tax dodge.
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