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Retirement tax questions
Your 1099-R's tell a different story. They say that you took a normal distribution from the Traditional IRA of $6,000 and you say you converted that to a Roth (code 2 with IRA box checked).. That is a taxable conversion and also subject to an additional 10% early distribution penalty. Unless that contribution was non-deductible on your 2019 tax return with a 2019 8606 form.
The code 8J says you withdrew $5,500 from the Roth as a "return of contribution". That is not taxable since it is just removing your own contribution.
Just enter the 1099-R's as they are. They appear to be correct.
On your 2019 tax return did you enter the $6,000 Traditional IRA contribution in the IRA contribution interview? If you did did you deduct it on the 2019 1040, Schedule 1 line 19?
If you did not report it at all then you must amend and enter it and make it non-deductible in the interview when it asks so that yiu will generate a 2019 8606 form that you need to enter for the 2020 1099-R for the $6,000 Roth conversion that will offset some or all of the tax.