once-per-year rollover

Outstanding Rollovers – What You Need to Know

Monday, January 22, 2024
The rules for rolling over IRA distributions can be complicated. These rules can become especially challenging at the end of the calendar year. If you are taking a distribution from your IRA at end of 2023 and considering a rollover that may not be completed until 2024, here are four facts you will want to know.
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How the Once-Per-Year Rollover Rule is Misunderstood

Wednesday, May 26, 2021
One of the cardinal sins you can commit with an IRA rollover is to run afoul of the IRS “once-per-year” rollover rule. Violating that rule triggers a taxable distribution and the 10% early distribution penalty if you are under age 59 ½. Plus, the forbidden rollover would be treated as an excess contribution subject to an annual 6% penalty unless timely corrected. Unlike missing the 60-day rollover deadline, violating the once-per-year rule is a mistake that cannot be fixed.
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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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