Retirement tax questions

That is one of the benefits of a deductible Traditional IRA.  You get a deduction now for it and it grows tax deferred.  You don't report buys, sell, interest, dividends or any transactions.  So you can do a lot of stock trading and moving funds around inside the IRA.  

You only report Distributions and rollovers and conversions.  You will get a 1099R for those.  You only pay tax on what you take out or convert to a ROTH IRA.  But then it's taxed as ordinary income and not capital gains.  

See IRS Pub 590a IRA Contributions  https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p590a.pdf 

590b Distributions https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p590b.pdf 

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