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It is a charitable contribution, however you cannot include it and otherwise deduct it along with other charitable donations.
A Qualified Charitable Distributions (QCDs) is a direct transfer of funds from your IRA custodian, payable to a qualified charity. QCDs can be counted toward satisfying your minimum required distributions (MRDs) for the year, as long as certain rules are met.
In addition to the benefits of giving to charity, a QCD excludes the amount donated from taxable income, which is unlike regular withdrawals from an IRA. Keeping your taxable income lower may reduce the impact to certain tax credits and deductions, including Social Security and Medicare.
Since it is already excluded from your taxable income, you can't take the itemized deduction (charitable donation) again. That would be double-dipping.
While many IRAs are eligible for QCDs—Traditional, Rollover, Inherited, SEP (inactive plans only), and SIMPLE (inactive plans only)* —there are requirements:
It is a charitable contribution, however you cannot include it and otherwise deduct it along with other charitable donations.
A Qualified Charitable Distributions (QCDs) is a direct transfer of funds from your IRA custodian, payable to a qualified charity. QCDs can be counted toward satisfying your minimum required distributions (MRDs) for the year, as long as certain rules are met.
In addition to the benefits of giving to charity, a QCD excludes the amount donated from taxable income, which is unlike regular withdrawals from an IRA. Keeping your taxable income lower may reduce the impact to certain tax credits and deductions, including Social Security and Medicare.
Since it is already excluded from your taxable income, you can't take the itemized deduction (charitable donation) again. That would be double-dipping.
While many IRAs are eligible for QCDs—Traditional, Rollover, Inherited, SEP (inactive plans only), and SIMPLE (inactive plans only)* —there are requirements:
Where do you deduct your qualified charitable contribution from your IRA?
If you are having the money from your IRA going directly to the Charity you do not deduct that amount on your tax return. Since the amount is going directly to the Charity that amount you withdrew from the IRA is not taxable to you. Because it is not taxable to you, you have not paid Federal tax on that amount so you have already received the tax benefit.
So then we do not report that income from our 1099 which our IRA sent us which we gave directly to charity as income ? Directly from the IRA . It never was handled by us.
You do report the 1099-R for your Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD), but then you indicate that it was used for a QCD.
To do this in TurboTax, please follow these steps:
TurboTax CD/Download
TurboTax Online
The income from the 1099-R will not be added to your taxable income. Keep in mind that you cannot also take a charitable deduction for this same contribution since the distribution was tax free.
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Now for another question in the same sphere. If I made a mistake on my 2019 taxes and reported the QCD but did not remove it from being taxable can I refile some way to get that corrected? Thanks
Yes, you can file a 2019 amended tax return to correct your 2019 federal tax liability. You can amend e-filed returns if they've been accepted; paper-filed returns may be amended once they've been mailed.
If your e-file is still pending, you won't be able to make changes until the IRS either accepts or rejects it. Don't know your e-file status? Here's how to look it up. Select your tax year for amending instructions:
Keep in mind: You have 3 years from the date you filed your return or 2 years after you paid the tax due (whichever is later) to file an amendment.
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In 2020, I withdrew $ in excess of the RMD, and directly have some of it transferred to a qualified charity and converted remaining to ROTH IRA. I realize that the converted amount to ROTH IRA is taxable as ordinary income. Where in TurboTAX I enter this conversion? I am obviously making a mistake, since in final check TurboTAX flags an error, and I cannot seem to correct it. Thanks.
To indicate that you made a qualified charitable donation AND converted part to a Roth IRA, please follow these steps:
STEP 1. To get a fresh start, delete the 199-R you've previously entered.
STEP 2. Enter the 1099-R
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I have this same issue for my 2021 taxes (taking a distribution from a regular IRA and doing the following: (1) converting almost half to a Roth IRA, (2) using the remaining amount to take the 2021 RMD and using a portion for QCD).
The most recent version of Turbo Tax premier will not allow me to enter these different activities. The program allows me to enter how much of the distribution was an RMD, and I can indicate that some or all was converted to a Roth IRA.
The problem comes with the question "Did you convert the gross amount (Box 1) to a Roth IRA? The choices are "Yes, all of this money was converted to a Roth IRA?" or "No, I converted less than the total" I select the second option and enter the actual amount converted to the Roth. When I try to continue to the next screen, the "Yes, all of this money was converted..." option is highlighted in red and a message saying "this info is required" shows up. I cannot move forward from this point.
To clarify, are you using the online version or the software?
I'm using the online version.
The reason you may not be seeing the charitable option, and to follow-up on the comments from @DaveF1006, is perhaps because of the Distribution Code in Box 7 on the 1099-R. For example, a Distribution Code of 7, a normal distribution, will generate a page where you can select the charitable option and enter an amount of such donation. What Distribution Code do you have in Box 7?
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