DaveF1006
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Retirement tax questions

Follow these directions explicitly and you will not owe taxable income or early withdrawal penalties.

  1. After you enter all your 1099R information, there are many followup questions that occur.
  2. Scroll through the many questions regarding the qualified disaster Distribution and continue until you reach a screen that asks "owned Any Roth for more than five years?  Say yes
  3. Go ahead and answer the next two answers truthfully and you will reach a screen that says"Enter your prior year's contributions.  If you have been using turbo tax in past years, this will be populated.
  4. As soon as you answer this question regarding basis, this will make your distribution non -taxable.
  5. I see where you enter the amount of the distribution as a disability and that is the correct way to report this so you won't receive the early withdrawal penalty. 
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