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Retirement tax questions

The excess $5,500 contribution for 2018 is subject to 6% excess accumulation penalties on your 2018 and 2019 tax returns, so if those tax returns did not each include Form 5329 Part IV with the $330 penalty for each year, you must file those and pay the penalties.

 

Do not enter the code R Form 1099-R anywhere.  Just make sure that your 2019 tax return shows the resulting $6,000 traditional IRA contribution either as deductible on Schedule 1 line 19 or on Form 8606 line 1.  Amend 2019 if necessary to correct this.

 

Enter the code 2 Form 1099-R and indicate that this amount was converted to Roth.

 

Enter the code J Form 1099-R and indicate that  you cashed it out.

 

The code N Form 1099-R reports a rrecharacterization in 2020 of the $6,000contribution made in January for 2020.  Apparently the Roth IRA investments had dropped in value, so recharacterizing $6,000 resulted in a transfer to the traditional IRA of $5,633  In addition to entering the code N Form 1099-R into 2020 TurboTax (which will actually be ignored by TurboTax)  you must enter the original $6,000 Roth IRA contribution under Deductions & Credits and indicate that you changed the $6,000 to be a traditional IRA contribution instead.  TurboTax will then prompt you to enter an explanation statement regarding the details of this recharacterization.

 

Make sure that after entering all Forms 1099-R (except the code R Form 1099-R) into 2020 TurboTax that you click the Continue button on the Your 1099-R Entries page TurboTax shows your Total Basis [in nondeductible contributions] as of December 2019 as $6,000 and your Roth IRA Contributions prior to 2020 as $5,500.  Also make sure that you enter as your excess contributions the $5,500 excess carried into 2020 from 2018.

 

TurboTax will prepare 2020 Form 5329 Part IV to show that your code J distribution has eliminated the excess contribution that had been made for 2018.  TurboTax will also prepare Form 8606 Parts I and II showing that the code 2 Roth conversion is nontaxable and Part III to show that the code J distribution is nontaxable.  Form 1040 line 4a will show $21,842 of reportable transactions and line 4b will have $0 showing that none of this is taxable.

 

With $12,000 of basis in nondeductible traditional IRA contributions from the 2019 and 2020 contributions, the $10,709 Roth conversion will be nontaxable (assuming that the December 31, 2020 balance in traditional IRAs was zero), calculated on Form 8606 Parts I and II.

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