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Non-Spouse Beneficiaries and Roth IRA Distributions: Today’s Slott Report Mailbag

Thursday, October 05, 2023
QUESTION:On September 6th in a piece titled, “Rules for Inherited IRAs that May Surprise Nonspouse Beneficiaries,” Sarah Brenner from Ed Slott and Company wrote, “If you inherited the IRA funds in 2020 or later, as a nonspouse beneficiary you will most likely be subject to a 10-year payout-period, possibly with annual RMDs during the 10-year period.”My brothers and sisters and I are non-spousal beneficiaries, and my understanding is that there is no rule or code yet that states we must take some out of the inherited IRA account each year, only that it must be drained by end of the tenth year as required by the SECURE Act. My sibling says we must take some each year. Which of us is correct? We are all under the RMD age, in our sixties and our parents passed September of 2022.
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Nonspouse Beneficiaries and 2021 RMDs: Today’s Slott Report Mailbag

Thursday, October 07, 2021
Question:Dear Ed Slott and Company,I am a longtime subscriber, having met and talked with Ed at several industry conferences, going back well over 20 years. Which, with all of Ed’s great work and active networking, puts me in a pretty big club!In any event, a CPA has turned to me with a problem.A client of his passed away earlier this year with $1.7M in her IRA. Her Estate was the beneficiary of the IRA. Her 80+ year old siblings are the beneficiaries of the estate. I know, not great facts. But, it gets worse.
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Rollovers and Inherited IRAs: Today’s Slott Report Mailbag

Thursday, July 30, 2020
Question 1: I have a very simple ROTH IRA question. I borrowed money from my ROTH IRA with the intention of paying it all back in 60 days. To avoid any penalty, must I make one repayment of all the money I borrowed? Or, can my repayment be made in two parts, all within the sixty days?Question 2: Am I allowed to convert my inherited Traditional IRA to a Roth IRA?
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