Inherited IRA
My client John Smith died earlier this year and left his IRA Rollover to a John Smith Conduit Trust. The trustee (Bill Howard) shall hold, maintain and administer the trust estate for the benefit of John Smith’s daughter. We intend to move the balance of his rollover account into an Inherited IRA For a Trust Beneficiariy. My questions is this: client did not take his 2017 RMD. Do we distribute the RMD direct to the daughter or should it go directly to an additional new account John Smith Conduit Trust.
Permalink Submitted by Alan - IRA critic on Mon, 2017-07-17 18:33
After the inherited IRA in the name of the trust is established and the IRA balance transferred into that account, the 2017 year of death RMD can only be distributed to the trust as the named beneficiary of the inherited IRA. The 1099R will be issued to the trust EIN.