«If you make your contribution to
the nondeductible traditional IRA and then leave it there until it accumulates sufficient investment income to exceed the full contribution amount before you convert it, you will have to reverse the excess amount of the conversion before the end of the year or face a fine from the Internal Revenue Service.
Note that withdrawals from deductible and
nondeductible traditional IRAs are subject to ordinary income taxes and if withdrawn prior to age 59 1/2 may be subject to an additional 10 percent federal income tax penalty (for
nondeductible traditional IRAs, only the portion of the withdrawal attributable to earnings is taxable).
It's called Form 8606, a tax document that must be completed and filed with your income tax return to report both
nondeductible traditional IRA contributions and withdrawals whenever they occur.
Not exact matches
Those who want to contribute annually to a Roth but exceed the income cap may also take advantage of a loophole in the tax law by doing a backdoor conversion, which entails contributing money to a
traditional,
nondeductible IRA each year and then immediately converting it into a Roth.
It's possible to make
nondeductible contributions to a
Traditional IRA, also called «after - tax contributions».
If I an correct, in
traditional IRA, the basis, as in 8606, is the portion of the balance due to
nondeductible contribution.
Even if you're not eligible to deduct your
traditional IRA contribution, you can make
nondeductible contributions and still benefit from tax - deferred investment growth.
If your
traditional IRA contains mostly
nondeductible contributions, converting it to a Roth IRA can produce handsome benefits over the long run.
Any money you contribute to a
traditional IRA that you do not deduct on your tax return is a «
nondeductible contribution.»
If you own several
traditional IRAs, you must aggregate (add together) all their balances and
nondeductible contributions to determine the taxable distribution.
If you only have one
traditional IRA, the amount of the distribution to be taxed equals the account balance on the conversion date minus any
nondeductible contributions.
Once you make a
nondeductible contribution to a
Traditional IRA or rollover after - tax amounts, any distributions taken from the IRA will include a prorated amount of pre-tax and post-tax assets.
Contributions are
nondeductible — therefore, unlike the
Traditional IRA, distributions from an Educational IRA are penalty free and tax - free
Example: You have a
traditional IRA with a balance of $ 10,000, which includes $ 6,000 of
nondeductible contributions.
You may have a conversion that's only partly taxable because you made
nondeductible contributions to a
traditional IRA before the conversion.
If your income is very high, you might not be able to deduct the
Traditional IRA contribution (wholly, or in part) on your 2016 tax return either, and if you are in that high - earner category, you should file Form 8606 with your tax return to tell the IRS that you have made a
nondeductible contribution to your
Traditional IRA.
In later years, when you start taking distributions from your
Traditional IRA, that
nondeductible contribution will not be taxed upon withdrawal.
If you convert only part of your
traditional IRA, or if you have more than one
traditional IRA and don't convert all of them, then the nontaxable part of your conversion distribution will be determined by a formula where the nontaxable percentage is the amount of your total
nondeductible contributions (less any nontaxable distributions you previously received) divided by the total balance of all of your
traditional IRAs.
A: Yes, but when you determine how much of your conversion distribution is taxable, you're required to treat all your
traditional IRAs as if they were one big IRA, so you don't get any advantage if you take the distribution out of the IRA that has the most
nondeductible contributions.
It's possible to make
nondeductible contributions to a
Traditional IRA, also called «after - tax contributions».
If you made
nondeductible contributions to a
traditional IRA at any time in the past, and haven't previously withdrawn the
nondeductible contributions, then your partial conversion will be partly nontaxable.
Your investments will still grow tax deferred — which means even
nondeductible contributions to a
Traditional IRA may be more profitable than keeping money in a non-tax-advantaged account.
A: If you convert the entire amount of all
traditional IRAs you own, then the non-taxable part of your rollover distribution is simply the total amount of
nondeductible contributions you made to all of those IRAs, less the amount of nontaxable distributions you received in the past.
Q: How do I determine how much of my distribution is nontaxable if I made
nondeductible contributions to one or more of my
traditional IRAs?
WHEN YOU CONVERT A
TRADITIONAL IRA to a Roth IRA, you don't have to pay taxes on your
nondeductible contributions.
Income tax is certainly due on the total amount of the distribution, less that part of the distribution that is a return of
nondeductible post-tax contributions, if any, to the
Traditional IRA.
Nondeductible contributions If your income is too high to deduct contributions to a
traditional IRA, you might qualify for a Roth IRA.
Some people have
traditional IRAs that consist mostly of
nondeductible contributions.
You might have a
traditional IRA with basis from
nondeductible contributions or rollovers.
Bear in mind that a
traditional IRA has basis only to the extent of your
nondeductible contributions.
The A in IRA stands for Arrangement, not Account as most everybody thinks, and your
Traditional IRA can invest in many different things, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, etc with different custodians if you choose, but your basis is in the IRA, not the specific investment that you made with your
nondeductible contribution.
What if you never made a
nondeductible contribution to your
Traditional IRA, or you made some
nondeductible contributions many years ago and have forgotten about them?
Once you make a
nondeductible contribution or roll over after - tax amounts to any of your
Traditional, SEP or SIMPLE IRA, any subsequent distributions from any of your
Traditional, SEP or SIMPLE IRAs will include a prorated amount of pretax and post-tax assets, as these IRAs are aggregated for the purposes of determining the taxable amount of any distributions.
Once you make a
nondeductible contribution or roll over after - tax amounts to any of your
Traditional, SEP or SIMPLE IRA
If that is the case, you can still consider making
nondeductible contributions to a
traditional IRA.