dmertz
Level 15

Retirement tax questions

When entering this Form 1099-R, TurboTax does not permit you to indicate that the distribution was rolled over because a distribution paid to a non-spouse beneficiary from an inherited IRA is not permitted to be rolled over.  An IRA inherited by a non-spouse beneficiary is only permitted to be moved by nonreportable trustee-to-trustee transfer.

If this was a distribution paid to you, its deposit into another IRA as a rollover constitutes an excess contribution to that IRA.

If the money was instead paid directly to the new inherited IRA for you benefit by trustee-to-trustee transfer without ever having been paid to you, the movement of the funds was neither distribution nor a rollover and must not be reported by the originating and receiving trustees as such.  In this case, you must ask the originating trustee to issue a corrected Form 1099-R showing a distribution of $0 and you must also make sure that the receiving trustee does not report receipt of the funds as a rollover contribution on the Form 5498 from the new inherited IRA.