JamesG1
Employee Tax Expert

Retirement tax questions

Did you receive a 2024 IRS form 1099-R that reported the distribution that was the 401(k) loan payoff?  It sounds like the issuer of the IRS form 1099-R could be reporting the code M on the form.

 

IRS Plan Loan Offsets  states:

 

The instructions further require that a QPLO should be reported as one would any other actual distribution. 

 

In addition, the administrator would enter Code M in box 7 of Form 1099-R.

 

Plan administrators must report any QPLOs on Form 1099-R for QPLO distributions made in 2021 and later.

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