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Retirement tax questions
so that verbiage about "your own money" is supposed to kick in if you did some withholding in the conversion. it's a bit confusing but my guess is it's referring to case where tax is due on the conversion, withholding is made so the full amount doesn't get converted, but instead you send external money ("your own money") into your Roth within 60 days like a rollover, to make up the difference. It's a way of having withholding on a Roth conversion to avoid estimated taxes and possibly a penalty, but still get the same outcome into the Roth.
anyway - I don't think it makes sense to show this when it's "$0" - I think you probably have a zero in Box 4 of your 1099-R instead of blank. If you want to make this verbiage go away you can go back and blank out Box 4 instead of $0, but I don't think it matters.
Either way - if you converted all 8000 to Roth you should say "Yes, all of this money was converted to a Roth IRA"