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posted May 13, 2025 12:22:19 PM

Can you return IRA money not needed

Withdrew money for a auto but changed my mind and want to but it back

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Level 15
May 13, 2025 12:58:11 PM

You can return it within 60 days of the withdrawal. 

Level 15
May 13, 2025 1:03:26 PM

Within 60 days, you can return it to the same IRA, or deposit it in a different IRA.  This would be an "indirect rollover" and you can do this once per calendar year.  You will get a 1099-R that you have to report, and you tell the program it was a rollover.  

 

If more than 60 days, it is a withdrawal and you have to pay the tax (and penalty.)

Level 15
May 13, 2025 2:15:23 PM

If you do a rollover, you cannot do another rollover within a one-year period from the date of the distribution (withdrawal) that you rolled over. See "Waiting period between rollovers" in IRS Publication 590-A for details.


For example, if you took money out of an IRA on April 10, 2025, and rolled it over to the same IRA or a different IRA within 60 days, you cannot do another rollover until April 10, 2026. It is not by calendar year.

 

Level 15
May 13, 2025 2:19:06 PM

And if you put it back within the 60 days  you should replace any withholding taken out from other money  or the withholding will become a distribution and taxable and a 10%  early withdrawal penalty if you are under 59 1/2.

Level 15
May 13, 2025 2:34:30 PM

@Opus 17 , the rollover limitation is NOT a calendar-year limitation.  The limitation is that no IRA distribution can be rolled over to a like-kind (traditional or Roth) IRA in the one-year period beginning on the date of a previous IRA distribution that was rolled over to a like-kind IRA.