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Retirement tax questions

Do you have any nondeductible contributions to those accounts?   TurboTax is probably asking for information needed for Form 8606 or to calculate how much of a retirement distribution is taxable.  

 

Any money you contribute to a traditional IRA that you do not deduct on your tax return is a “nondeductible contribution.”    No individual’s money is supposed to be subject to federal income tax twice.  Form 8606 gets it “on the record” that a portion of the money in your IRA has already been taxed.   Later on, when you take distributions, a portion of the money you get back will not be subject to income tax.   

 

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