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@fanfare wrote:

Sometimes your Roth IRA grows so fast that the 6% excess contribution penalty can be easily absorbed.

But it appears that those days may be over.


The penalty for missing the RMD is 50% of the missed RMD.  That's on top of the 6% penalty for excess contributions, which the taxpayer has to pay every year until the excess contribution is removed.