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Are earnings on recharacterizations taxed?
Hi,
I had put in $6000 in my Roth IRA Nov 2020 for tax year 2020. In 3/2021, I realized my combined income was too high to contribute to Roth directly so I recharacterized $6000 + earnings ($2863) to Traditional IRA. I then did a back door conversion from Traditional IRA to Roth IRA a few days later. When I look at the 8606 generated from Turbo, why isn’t the $2863 noted as taxable income on line 15c? Did I answer something wrong or are earnings on an IRA recharacterizion not taxable? I just want to make sure I am doing this right.
Here is info from my 8606:
line 1: $6000
line 2: $0 (never contributed anything to traditional)
line 3: $6000
line 5: $6000
line 14: $6000
line 15: $0 (taxable amount, why is it not $2863)
Note Part II doesn’t show conversion from Traditional to Roth bc it was done in 2021 (I have to wait until next 2021 Taxes, right?)