The earlier publish Break up-Yr Backdoor Roth IRA in FreeTaxUSA, 1st Yr handled contributing to a Conventional IRA for the earlier yr and recharacterizing a earlier yr’s Roth IRA contribution as a Conventional IRA contribution. This publish handles the conversion half in FreeTaxUSA.
We cowl two instance eventualities on this publish. Right here’s the primary:
You contributed $6,000 to a Conventional IRA for 2022 in 2023. The worth elevated to $6,200 whenever you transformed it to Roth in 2023. You obtained a 1099-R kind itemizing this $6,200 Roth conversion.
It is best to’ve already reported the contribution half in your 2022 tax return by following Break up-Yr Backdoor Roth IRA in FreeTaxUSA, 1st Yr. The IRA custodian despatched you a 1099-R kind for the conversion in 2023. This publish reveals you methods to put it into FreeTaxUSA.
Right here’s the second instance situation:
You contributed $6,000 to a Roth IRA for 2022 in 2022. You realized that your revenue was too excessive whenever you did your 2022 taxes in 2023. You recharacterized the Roth contribution for 2022 as a Conventional contribution earlier than April 15, 2023. The IRA custodian moved $6,100 out of your Roth IRA to your Conventional IRA as a result of your unique $6,000 contribution had some earnings. The worth elevated once more to $6,200 whenever you transformed it to Roth in 2023. You obtained two 1099-R types, one for $6,100 and one other for $6,200.
It is best to’ve already reported the recharacterized contribution in your 2022 tax return by following Break up-Yr Backdoor Roth IRA in FreeTaxUSA, 1st Yr. The IRA custodian despatched you two 1099-R types, one for the recharacterization, and the opposite for the conversion. This publish reveals you methods to put each of them into FreeTaxUSA.
In case you contributed for 2023 in 2024 or in the event you recharacterized a 2023 contribution in 2024, you’re nonetheless within the first yr of this journey. Please comply with Break up-Yr Backdoor Roth IRA in FreeTaxUSA, 1st Yr. In case you recharacterized your 2023 contribution in 2023 and transformed in 2023, please use a unique follow-up publish.
If neither of those instance eventualities matches you, please seek the advice of our information for a standard “clear” backdoor Roth: Find out how to Report Backdoor Roth In FreeTaxUSA (Up to date).
In case you’re married and each you and your partner did the identical factor, you need to comply with the steps beneath for each your self and your partner.
1099-R for Recharacterization
This part solely applies to the second instance situation. In case you contributed on to a Conventional IRA for the earlier yr and didn’t recharacterize (the primary instance situation), please skip this part and soar over to the conversion part.
We deal with the 1099-R kind for recharacterization first. This 1099-R kind has a code “R” in Field 7.
Discover “Retirement Earnings (1099-R)” below the Earnings menu.
Click on on the “Add a 1099-R” button.
It’s only a common 1099-R.
Enter the 1099-R for the recharacterization precisely as you’ve gotten it. Field 1 reveals the quantity that was transferred from the Roth IRA to the Conventional IRA whenever you recharacterized your 2022 contribution. Field 2a reveals that the recharacterization isn’t taxable. Field 2b “taxable quantity not decided” isn’t checked. The code in Field 7 is “R.” The “IRA / SEP / SIMPLE” field isn’t checked.
Your 1099-R reveals 2023 however FreeTaxUSA says you need to’ve reported it in your 2022 tax return. The issue is you didn’t have it again then. You couldn’t have reported one thing you didn’t have. Choose the proper yr and proceed anyway.
The recharacterization wasn’t a rollover.
FreeTaxUSA reveals some alerts. The zero taxable revenue on the 1099-R is right. Code “R” in Field 7 can be right. Though you didn’t embrace this 1099-R final yr since you didn’t have it at the moment, you don’t have to amend final yr’s tax return in the event you reported the recharacterization another way whenever you adopted Break up-Yr Backdoor Roth IRA in FreeTaxUSA, 1st Yr. You might have to amend final yr’s return provided that you didn’t report the recharacterization final yr in any respect.
You’re achieved with the 1099-R kind for the recharacterization. Click on on the “Add a 1099-R” button so as to add the opposite 1099-R for the conversion.
1099-R for Conversion
The 1099-R for conversion has a code “2” in Field 7 in the event you’re below age 59-1/2 or a code “7” in the event you’re 59-1/2 or older.
It’s additionally a daily 1099-R.
Field 1 reveals the quantity transformed to Roth. In case you contributed to a Conventional IRA for 2023 in 2023 and transformed in 2023 (a “clear” backdoor Roth) on prime of changing the 2022 contribution in 2023, the quantity on the 1099-R contains two years’ value of contributions. It’s regular to have the identical quantity because the taxable quantity in Field 2a when Field 2b is checked saying “taxable quantity not decided.” Be sure to decide on the proper code in Field 7 to match your 1099-R. The “IRA / SEP / SIMPLE” field is checked.
Your refund quantity drops after you enter the 1099-R. Don’t panic. It’s regular and non permanent. The refund quantity will come up once we end all the pieces.
It’s not an inherited IRA.
It’s a Roth conversion. 100% of the quantity on the 1099-R was transformed from a Conventional IRA to a Roth IRA.
You’re achieved with this 1099-R for the conversion. Repeat when you have one other 1099-R. In case you’re married and each of you transformed to Roth, take note of whose 1099-R it’s whenever you enter the second. You’ll have issues in the event you assign each 1099-R types to the identical individual after they belong to every partner. Click on on “No, Proceed” when you’ve gotten entered all of the 1099-R types.
Reply “Sure” right here since you had a Conventional IRA contribution from final yr.
Get the worth for the primary field from final yr’s Type 8606 Line 14 (assuming that you simply did final yr appropriately). In case you didn’t have a Type 8606 final yr since you didn’t do it appropriately, your foundation is the quantity of your 2022 Conventional IRA contribution minus any deduction you took on final yr’s Schedule 1 Line 20. The full foundation is $6,000 in our instance.
The second field must be zero whenever you emptied all of your Conventional IRAs after changing them to Roth and also you don’t have any SEP or SIMPLE IRAs. In case you had a number of {dollars} of earnings posted within the Conventional IRA after you transformed and also you left them within the account, get the worth out of your year-end assertion and put it within the second field. The software program will apply the pro-rata rule.
The third field also needs to be zero whenever you made your 2023 contribution in 2023.
We didn’t take any catastrophe distribution.
Now proceed with all different revenue gadgets till you might be achieved with revenue.
Clear Backdoor Roth On Prime
In case you did a “clear” backdoor Roth on prime of changing the 2022 contribution in 2023 (contributed to a Conventional IRA for 2023 in 2023 and transformed in 2023), the conversion a part of the clear backdoor Roth is already included within the 1099-R kind we simply accomplished. Now we do the contribution half.
Discover the “IRA Contributions” part below the “Deductions / Credit” menu.
Reply “Sure” to the primary query and enter your contribution to your Conventional IRA. Go away the reply to “Did you recharacterize” at No. We contributed $6,500 in our instance.
Your refund quantity goes up once more after you enter the contribution.
We didn’t contribute to a SEP, SIMPLE, or solo 401k plan on this instance. Reply Sure in the event you did.
“Withdraw” means pulling cash out of a Conventional IRA again to your checking account. Changing to Roth just isn’t a withdrawal. Reply “No” right here.
FreeTaxUSA reveals the identical web page we noticed earlier than within the conversion part. Verify and proceed.
It tells us we don’t get a deduction as a result of our revenue is simply too excessive. In case you see a deduction right here it means the software program thinks your revenue qualifies for a deduction, which can or is probably not right. Please see the Troubleshooting part.
Taxable Earnings
You’re achieved with the 1099-R types. Let’s have a look at how they present up in your tax return. Click on on the three dots on the highest proper above the IRA Deduction Abstract after which click on on “Preview Return.”
Search for Traces 4a and 4b in your Type 1040.
Line 4a reveals the quantity in your 1099-R for the Roth conversion. Line 4b reveals the taxable quantity, which is the earnings between the time you contributed to your Conventional IRA and the time you transformed it to Roth. The taxable quantity on Line 4b can be zero in the event you didn’t have any earnings.
Go towards the top within the pop-up to seek out Type 8606. It reveals these for our instance:
| Line # | Quantity |
|---|---|
| 1 | 6,500 (provided that you additionally did a “clear” backdoor Roth on prime, in any other case clean.) |
| 2 | 6,000 |
| 3 | The sum of Line 1 and Line 2 |
| 5 | The identical as Line 3 |
| 8 | The quantity in your 1099-R with a code 2 or 7 |
| 13 | The identical as Line 3 |
| 14 | clean (or a small quantity in case your Conventional IRA had a small stability on the finish of 2023) |
| 16 | The identical as Line 8 |
| 17 | Line 3 minus Line 14 |
| 18 | The distinction between Line 16 and Line 17 |
Troubleshooting
In case you adopted the steps and you aren’t getting the anticipated outcomes, right here are some things to examine.
Conversion Is Taxed
In case you don’t have a retirement plan at work, you’ve gotten the next revenue restrict to take a deduction in your Conventional IRA contribution. You probably have a retirement plan at work however your revenue is low sufficient, you might be additionally eligible for a deduction in your Conventional IRA contribution. FreeTaxUSA offers you the deduction if it sees that your revenue qualifies. It doesn’t provide the selection of constructing it non-deductible.
A part of your conversion could possibly be taxed since you took a deduction on the Conventional IRA contribution final yr or this yr. You see whether or not you took a deduction by taking a look at Schedule 1 Line 20 on final yr’s and this yr’s tax returns.
The taxable Roth IRA conversion and the deduction in your Conventional IRA contribution offset one another to create a wash. That is regular and it doesn’t trigger any issues whenever you certainly don’t have a retirement plan at work or when your revenue is sufficiently low.
In case you even have a retirement plan at work, possibly the software program didn’t see it. Whether or not you’ve gotten a retirement plan at work is marked by the “Retirement plan” field in Field 13 of your W-2.
Possibly you forgot the examine it whenever you entered the W-2. Double-check the “Retirement plan” field in Field 13 of your (and your partner’s) W-2 entries in FreeTaxUSA to verify they match the W-2.
Self vs Partner
In case you are married, be sure you don’t have the 1099-R and the IRA contribution combined up between your self and your partner. In case you inadvertently assigned two 1099-Rs to at least one individual as a substitute of 1 for you and one in your partner, the second 1099-R is not going to match up with a Conventional IRA contribution made by a partner. In case you entered a 1099-R for each your self and your partner however you solely entered one Conventional IRA contribution, you may be taxed on one 1099-R.
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