Retirement tax questions

You needed to first enter a non-deductible IRA contribution to a traditional IRA in TurboTax, and then enter the Form 1099-R reporting the rollover into TurboTax and indicate that it is a Roth IRA conversion. You will be asked to enter balances in IRA accounts for current and previous years and also the non-deductible contributions you made to your traditional IRA accounts. You have to be careful to answer those questions accurately to get everything to report properly.

For the backdoor IRA, enter a traditional IRA contribution in the Deductions and Credits section of TurboTax, then Retirements and Investments, then Traditional and Roth IRA Contributions. Indicate that your traditional IRA contribution is non-deductible when asked in the program:

When you enter the 1099-R form in TurboTax, you need to first indicate that you moved the money to another retirement account and that you did a combination of rolling over, converting or cashing out the money. Then, enter the amount converted to a ROTH IRA. Later on you need to indicate that you tracked non-deductible contributions to your IRA.