Your expected return amount may be going down due to how the IRS mandates that distributions be taxed.
As long as you have any pre-tax money in any Traditional IRA, you are forced to "pro-rate" your basis over time.
If your basis is a small percentage of the total value of all of your IRAs, then a smaller percentage of your RMD will be tax-free.
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