DanaB27
Employee Tax Expert

Retirement tax questions

No, qualified acquisition costs include the following items:

  • Costs of buying, building, or rebuilding a home.

  • Any usual or reasonable settlement, financing, or other closing costs.

 

 

To qualify for treatment as a first-time homebuyer distribution, the distribution must meet all the following requirements:

  1. It must be used to pay qualified acquisition costs before the close of the 120th day after the day you received it.

  2. It must be used to pay qualified acquisition costs for the main home of a first-time homebuyer who is any of the following.

    1. Yourself.

    2. Your spouse.

    3. Your or your spouse's child.

    4. Your or your spouse's grandchild.

    5. Your or your spouse's parent or other ancestor.

  3. When added to all your prior qualified first-time homebuyer distributions, if any, total qualifying distributions can't be more than $10,000 (IRS).

 

To enter you exception into TurboTax:

 

  1. Login to your TurboTax Account 
  2. Click on the "Search" on the top and type “1099-R”
  3. Click on “Jump to 1099-R”  and enter your 1099-R
  4. Click "continue" after all 1099-R are entered and answer all the questions.
  5. Continue until "Did you use your IRA to pay for any of these expenses?" screen and enter the amount under "First home purchase" (up to $10,000).
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