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Retirement tax questions
The Form 1099-R has been prepared incorrectly because code H is not permitted to be combined with marking of the IRA/SEP/SIMPLE box. Code H is only to be used for a rollover to a Roth IRA from a designated Roth account in an employer plan like a 401(k).
Because employer plans virtually never make the mistake of marking the IRA/SEP/SIMPLE box incorrectly, I assume that your assertion that the funds came from a Roth IRA is correct. If the Roth IRA was moved to another Roth IRA by trustee-to-trustee transfer, which I suspect is the case, no Form 1099-R should have been issued. In this case you'll need to obtain a corrected Form 1099-R showing that $0 was distributed from the original Roth IRA. If the payer (which I'm guessing is a bank or savings & loan, they routinely make such errors due to notoriously inadequate training of staff) refuses to correct the Form 1099-R, you'll need to submit a substitute Form 1099-R (Form 4852) identical to the one you received except showing that $0 was distributed.
If the funds were actually made payable to you and within 60-day you rolled the distribution over to another Roth IRA, which does not seem to be the case based on your description of the transaction, the Form 1099-R would need to have code J, T or Q in box 7 and the IRA/SEP/SIMPLE box unmarked. In this case the payer would need to correct the Form 1099-R to show the correct entries in box 2a, 2b, 7 and have the IRA/SEP/SIMPLE box unmarked.
And to be clear, the IRA/SEP/SIMPLE box is never marked for a distribution from any kind of Roth account.