You are correct, you will only have a basis in an IRA account if there is money in the account. The basis amount is the non-deductible portion of your traditional IRA account. Since you can make deductible and non-deductible contributions to a traditional IRA account, you could have a balance at the end of the year but have a $0 basis, if all the money in the IRA was from deductible contributions.
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