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IRA cash gifts to family member to pay off loan?

Gifts received are not reported on a tax return, regardless of the amount received.

 

If your gift to a single individual is more than $17,000 in 2023 then you are required to report the gift given on an IRS Form 709.  The form is not included with a tax return but filed separately.  TurboTax does not support Form 709.

No gift taxes will be owed on the gift if the total of all gifts ever given is not over $12.92 million in 2023.

 

The withdrawal from the IRA may be taxable income.  You will receive a Form 1099-R for the amount withdrawn.  You enter the Form 1099-R on your federal tax return, Form 1040.

RyanH5
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IRA cash gifts to family member to pay off loan?

Hi Cullenbarbiefr. Thank you for joining us today.

Any gift from one individual to another including, children and other family members,(except for spouses) is subject to the gift tax rules. For 2023, the gift tax exclusion is $17,000. Any gift in excess of this amount would need to be reported on a Form 709 to the IRS. These excess amounts lower the lifetime exclusion amount. The lifetime exclusion is $12.92 million for 2023.

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IRA cash gifts to family member to pay off loan?

From your post it's not clear who is the lender, who is the borrower, and who paid off the loan. It's also not clear what your question is.


If a borrower pays off a loan, the payment to the lender is not a gift if it was a true loan that was made with the expectation or requirement that it would be paid back. If you borrowed money from a family member, when you pay it back the lender generally has to report part of the payment as interest income. If they did not charge interest, part of the payment is considered "imputed interest" and they have to report the imputed interest as income. But they might not have to report it if the loan was less than $10,000. The borrower does not report the loan payoff on his or her tax return.


Or do you mean that a family member took out a loan from a bank or other lender, and you gave that family member a gift of money so that they could pay off their loan? If that's what you did, and you had no legal obligation to pay off the loan, then that is a gift to the family member.


What do you mean by "IRA cash gifts"? Did you withdraw money from your IRA and give that money to a family member as a gift? If so, it's two separate transactions. You have to report the withdrawal from your IRA on your tax return, and most likely all or part of it will be taxable, no matter what you did with the money. The treatment of the loan payoff is the same, whether the money came from an IRA or from somewhere else.

 

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