dmertz
Level 15

Retirement tax questions

I think I see the issue.  Even though a Roth conversion is treated in the tax code as a taxable rollover, in TurboTax you must explicitly report it as a Roth conversion and not as a rollover.  If TurboTax does not provide the selection to indicate that you converted the entire amount to Roth (some versions do not), indicate that you did a combination of rolling over, converting and cashing out, then indicate the amount that was converted to Roth.  This distinction is necessary because nothing on a Form 1099-R for a distribution from a traditional IRA indicates what you did with the money.

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