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Retirement tax questions

See the Online screen shots that employee MarilynG1 posted
https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/after-you-file/discussion/re-qcd/01/3186042#M732644

 

To qualify as a QCD, the distribution must have taken place DIRECTLY from the account trustee to the charity.  It's ok for them to send you a check made out to the Charity that you then mail to the Charity.   Withdrawing funds and then making your own contribution to a charity DOES NOT qualify as a QCD. If that was done, then you have a potentially taxable distribution and a potentially deductible charitable contribution.

 

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