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Retirement tax questions
If you recharacterized it you don't need to withdraw anything. Please follow these steps to enter the recharacterization in TurboTax:
- Login to your TurboTax Account
- Click on "Search" on the top right and type “IRA contributions”
- Click on “Jump to IRA contributions"
- Select “Roth IRA”
- Answer “No” to “Is This a Repayment of a Retirement Distribution
- Enter the Roth contribution amount of $1,500
- Answer “Yes” to the recharacterized question on the “Did You Change Your Mind?” screen and enter the contribution amount of $1,500 (no earnings or losses)
- TurboTax will ask for an explanation statement where it should be stated that the original $1,500 plus $7.00 earnings were recharacterized.
- On the screen "Choose Not to Deduct IRA Contributions" answer "Yes" (if you are thinking about doing a backdoor Roth. If you have a retirement plan at work and are over the income limit it will be nondeductible automatically and you only get a warning and then a screen saying $0 is deductible)
You will get Form 1099-R for the recharacterization with code R-Recharacterized IRA contribution made for 2022 and this belongs on the 2022 return. But a Form 1099-R with code R will do nothing to your return. You can only report it as mentioned above. Therefore, you can ignore the Form 1099-R with code R when you get it in 2024. The box 1 on the 1099-R will report the total recharacterized amount (contribution plus earnings) but it does not separately report the earnings and box 2a must be zero.
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February 12, 2023
9:40 AM
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