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If you do not get step 7 but get the screen that asks "Tell me how much was transferred or how much was recharacterized" you will leave it blank and continue (this question does not apply to entering a backdoor Roth conversion).
Please be aware, that you will first enter the nondeductible traditional IRA contribution under Deduction & Credit and the conversion is entered in the retirement section when you enter your Form 1099-R.
Please review all the steps below to enter a backdoor Roth correctly into TurboTax.
To enter the nondeductible contribution to the traditional IRA:
- Login to your TurboTax Account
- Click on "Search" on the top right and type “IRA contributions”
- Click on “Jump to IRA contributions"
- Select “traditional IRA”
- Answer “No” to “Is This a Repayment of a Retirement Distribution?”
- Enter the amount you contributed
- Answer “No” to the recharacterized question on the “Did You Change Your Mind?” screen
- Answer the next questions until you get to “Any Nondeductible Contributions to Your IRA?” and select “Yes” if you had a nondeductible contributions before this tax year.
- If you had a basis in the Traditional IRA before then enter the amount.
- On the “Choose Not to Deduct IRA Contributions” screen choose “Yes, make part of my IRA contribution nondeductible” and enter the amount (If you have a retirement plan at work and are over the income limit it will be nondeductible automatically and you only get a screen saying $0 is deductible).
To enter the 1099-R distribution/conversion:
- Click on "Search" on the top right and type “1099-R”
- Click on “Jump to 1099-R”
- Click "Continue" and enter the information from your 1099-R
- Answer questions until you get to “Tell us if you moved the money through a rollover or conversion” and choose “I converted some or all of it to a Roth IRA”
- On the "Your 1099-R Entries" screen click "continue"
- Answer "yes" to "Any nondeductible Contributions to your IRA?" if you had any nondeductible contributions in prior years.
- Answer the questions about the basis and value
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February 28, 2022
5:06 AM