Can excess RMD 401K withdrawals be applied to reduce amount of required IRA RMD withdrawal?

[Opus 17]

No. Each account has a separate RMD requirement.

[heronsbill]

Agree that each account has separate RMD requirement.  However if all IRA accounts total 1000.00, by IRS rules, RMD can be taken from a single IRA account to meet total of required 1000.00 RMD.  The question is (Can 401k excess amount, above and beyond the 401K RMD, be used to reduce or meet the IRA RMD amount.  Note the difference between the two types of accounts (401K and IRA).

[SteamTrain]

again, no.

1)  Each 401k account's RMD must be withdrawn individually form each 401k they have (some people do have more than one 401k <or TSP>)

2)  BUT IRAs are handled differently....you total all your IRAs together (and only the IRAs) and then you can withdraw the RMD from one IRA.

But an IRA is Not a 401k
.......and their RMDs must be dealt with separately.  so the excess from the 401k cannot be used to satisfy the IRA RMD.

[macuser_22]

401(k) and IRA'a are different retirement plan *types* and each has it's own separate RMD requirements and rules - totally separate RMD's and cannot be mixed.     

As far as IRA's are concerned, you only have *one* IRA, and it is the aggregate total value of all IRA accounts (you can have as as many IRA accounts as you want) but the total RMD is calculated from the  aggregate total value of all IRA accounts so it does not matter which account, or accounts that the RMD comes from since it is all the same IRA for tax purposes.   The IRA RMD must come *from* the IRA and nowhere else.

[heronsbill]

Thanks, for the answer/clarification - Hope that it will also help others on TT.

[heronsbill]

Thanks for the clarification.  Hope that it will help others on TT also

[dmertz]

Here is the IRS's answer to this question, confirming the information provided above:

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