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Deductions & credits
@royper , you mentioned that the contributions were made with pre-tax funds taken from your paycheck by your employer. This implies that the distribution came from an employer plan like a 401(k), not from an IRA. Since the Form 1099-R has code 7 (and should have the IRA/SEP/SIMPLE box unmarked), as long as you did not indicate to TurboTax that the entire distribution was RMD (RMDs are not eligible for rollover), TurboTax will ask what you did with the money. You must indicate that you move the money to another retirement account, that you did a combination of rolling over, converting and cashing out, then indicate the amount that was deposited into the Roth IRA.
You must not change the code when entering the Form 1099-R. Code H reports a rollover to a Roth IRA of funds from a designated Roth account in an employer plan, which is not what you did. Code G is for a direct rollover, which is also apparently not what you did. Code 7 indicates that you did an indirect rollover.
Having made no after-tax contributions to your employer plan, the rollover from the pre-tax account to the Roth IRA is entirely taxable. The entire gross amount of the distribution will appear on Form 1040 line 5b with the ROLLOVER notation.
Code 7 also implies that there would have been a mandatory 20% withheld for taxes (unless the rollover was done in-kind rather than in cash). Unless other funds were substituted for the portion withheld for taxes, less than the full distribution was rolled over to the Roth IRA.