60 Day Rollover Question
Sometime in the first week of December, I intend to take a distribution of X dollars from my Traditional IRA and withhold 90% for federal income tax. Shortly after, I intend to roll the X dollars back into my Traditional IRA from my taxable brokerage account. Later in the month I plan to do a partial conversion of some of my Traditional IRA into my existing Roth IRA. Am I correct that doing this conversion is not a violation of the once-per-year 60 day rollover rule, since it is an IRA to Roth conversion, and not IRA to IRA, or Roth IRA to Roth IRA?
Permalink Submitted by Alan - IRA critic on Thu, 2025-06-12 00:32
Yes, that is correct. Conversions do not count against the one rollover limit. And the replacement of withholding must also not violate the one rollover per 12 months limit looking back 12 months to any prior distributions that were rolled over.