Made a nondeductible Trad IRA contribution which was returned as Excess Contribution

[jrandrewsjr]

The $7000 distribution (return of excess) is appearing as taxable distribution.  I put in after tax money and it was returned without any growth/increase.  How can I indicate that this distribution was just a return of nondeductible amount?

[FangxiaL]

There is no income limit on nondeductible Traditional IRA contributions. Do you have other deductible IRA contributions prior to 2021? Was the returned $7,000 a contribution for tax year 2021?

[jrandrewsjr]

I made the nondeductible (after tax) contribution to a Traditional IRA with the intention to then roll it to a Roth IRA as I have done in previous years.  However, I was told that I would not be able to do that because I now have other Traditional IRAs and the conversion to Roth would end up being taxable because I could not designate just this $7000 post-tax as the money I was converting.  (It would have to consider the balance of all my IRAs which are much larger and all pre-tax.).  So, Fidelity immediately returned the contribution and reported it on 1099R using the code "8" for return of contribution taxable.  I made the contribution in 2021 and had the return just a few days later.  I want to just remove that 1099R but I think I should somehow do it correctly now!  

So, I made a contribution with after tax dollars.

The contribution was returned with no gain.

I don't want to pay tax on the distribution.  

ANY thoughts would be appreciated.  THANK YOU for reviewing.

[dmertz]

You must enter the Form 1099-R and, when prompted, provide the required explanation statement describing what you described in your post here.  Do not enter the $7,000 contribution into TurboTax.  TurboTax will include on Form 1040 line 4a the $7,000 from box 1 of the code-8 Form 1099-R but will include on line 4b $0 as shown in box 2a of this Form 1099-R.  The $0 in box 2a means that the distribution is nontaxable and therefore affects nothing else on your tax return.