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Qualified Charitable DIstributions and Inherited IRAs: TOday’s Slott Report Mailbag

Thursday, November 21, 2024

Hello Ed Slott Team, We have a client with an IRA who wants to do a qualified charitable distribution (QCD) to a charity. The charity also has an account with the same custodian of the IRA and has asked that…

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