topic Where do I indicate an IRA rollover? in Retirement tax questions

Where do I indicate an IRA rollover?

husbutt — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:20:57 GMT

My wife had IRA funds she inherited from her brother that were deposited into her current IRA within 60 days. Where do you indicate that?

Re: Where do I indicate an IRA rollover?

dmertz — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 20:43:31 GMT

Such a rollover is, by law, not permitted. The inherited IRA was only permitted to be moved to another inherited IRA by nonreportable trustee-to-trustee transfer. Because the funds were distributed to your wife and reported on a code-4 Form 1099-R, the deposit of these funds into another inherited IRA constitutes an excess contribution that is subject to penalty.

The custodian of the receiving account should have disallow making the deposit.

Because this distribution is ineligible for rollover, TurboTax is programmed to disallow reporting such a distribution as having been rolled over. The distribution is taxable and your wife will need to obtain an explicit return of the excess contribution form the IRA that received the deposit.

Re: Where do I indicate an IRA rollover?

husbutt — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:27:00 GMT

dmertz:

Thanks for the prompt and authoritative response.

FYI, it turns out, after speaking with my wife, I was mistaken and those funds were not inherited, but were simply rolled over from a different IRA belonging to her.

Thanks again