RMD upon owners death
Our father passed this year and was 84. My brother and I are beneficiaries to his traditional IRA, which was a part of his TRUST estate. So my dad’s ira will be split into an Inherited IRA trust for me , and another Inherited IRA trust for my brother.
The question I have is—– My dad had not taken his RMD this year. We know we are responsible to take his RMD by Dec. 31st of this year according to his age.
However, does this need to happen BEFORE his IRA is rolled into our Inherited IRA trust accounts FBO of myself and FBO of my brother?
Or can we roll over his traditional IRA into the inherited IRA trust accounts and then do the RMD after that—- by Dec. 31st?
The inherited IRA trusts still bear the name of his original trust but states It’s inherited IRA FBO to me and to my brother),
anyone have answer?
Thank you.
Permalink Submitted by Alan - IRA critic on Tue, 2017-08-29 15:28
His year of death RMD can be completed before or after the transfer to separate inherited IRAs. Either way the 1099R will be issued to the recipient. The year of death RMD can also be taken in any combination between the two of you, so if one of you wants to take the full distribution that can be done. Proper communication is of course required to make sure this gets completed. To clarify, it sounds like the named beneficiary on his IRA was a trust, and that trust split into two sub trusts after his death, one for each of you. Is that correct? If so, has a new EIN been secured for each sub trust?