@Semantax what do you mean "my Inherited IRA is for a RBD?"
Do you mean that you are a designated beneficiary (but not an eligible designated bene) of an IRA, and the owner had reached their R...
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@Semantax what do you mean "my Inherited IRA is for a RBD?"
Do you mean that you are a designated beneficiary (but not an eligible designated bene) of an IRA, and the owner had reached their RBD? And therefore, you had an RMD because of the Secure Act's requirement, that because the owner had started RMDs the "remaining interest must be distributed at least as rapidly as under the method of distributions being used by the [IRA owner]?"
I think that is what you meant. In that case, I would agree with @Opus 17 that IRS notice 2024-35, IV(B),(C)(1) (page 😎 means you should ignore it because the IRS has said it will not assert the penalty (technically an excise tax).
You don't need a waiver because the IRS won't assert that you owe the tax.
"To the extent a taxpayer did not take a specified RMD (as defined in section IV.C of this notice), the IRS will not assert that an excise tax is due under § 4974. "
BTW, if your RMD for 2025 is because the IRA owner's having reached their RBD date, then you get to use your own life expectancy, not theirs, to calculate the RMD for years prior to year 10. Unless you are older than they were, that will result in a smaller RMD. That could be good or bad. You might want to take out money before the 10th year if it is a lot of money and you have signficant other income to spread it out. On the other hand, if it is small or it is a Roth IRA, you might well wait as long as possible to take distributions.
See https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p590b.pdf page 9: "If the owner died on or after their required beginning date (defined earlier) and you are a designated beneficiary, base your required minimum distributions for years after the year of the owner’s death on the longer of: • Your single life expectancy shown in Table I in Appendix B; or • The owner's life expectancy"