The earlier publish Cut up-12 months Backdoor Roth IRA in FreeTaxUSA, 1st 12 months handled contributing to a Conventional IRA for the earlier 12 months and recharacterizing a earlier 12 months’s Roth IRA contribution as a Conventional IRA contribution. This publish handles the conversion half in FreeTaxUSA.

We cowl two instance situations on this publish. Right here’s the primary:

You contributed $6,000 to a Conventional IRA for 2022 in 2023. The worth elevated to $6,200 whenever you transformed it to Roth in 2023. You acquired a 1099-R type itemizing this $6,200 Roth conversion.

You need to’ve already reported the contribution half in your 2022 tax return by following Cut up-12 months Backdoor Roth IRA in FreeTaxUSA, 1st 12 months. The IRA custodian despatched you a 1099-R type for the conversion in 2023. This publish reveals you methods to put it into FreeTaxUSA.

Right here’s the second instance state of affairs:

You contributed $6,000 to a Roth IRA for 2022 in 2022. You realized that your revenue was too excessive whenever you did your 2022 taxes in 2023. You recharacterized the Roth contribution for 2022 as a Conventional contribution earlier than April 15, 2023. The IRA custodian moved $6,100 out of your Roth IRA to your Conventional IRA as a result of your unique $6,000 contribution had some earnings. The worth elevated once more to $6,200 whenever you transformed it to Roth in 2023. You acquired two 1099-R types, one for $6,100 and one other for $6,200.

You need to’ve already reported the recharacterized contribution in your 2022 tax return by following Cut up-12 months Backdoor Roth IRA in FreeTaxUSA, 1st 12 months. The IRA custodian despatched you two 1099-R types, one for the recharacterization, and the opposite for the conversion. This publish reveals you methods to put each of them into FreeTaxUSA.

For those who contributed for 2023 in 2024 or for those who recharacterized a 2023 contribution in 2024, you’re nonetheless within the first 12 months of this journey. Please observe Cut up-12 months Backdoor Roth IRA in FreeTaxUSA, 1st 12 months. For those who recharacterized your 2023 contribution in 2023 and transformed in 2023, please use a distinct follow-up publish.

If neither of those instance situations suits you, please seek the advice of our information for a standard “clear” backdoor Roth: The best way to Report Backdoor Roth In FreeTaxUSA (Up to date).

For those who’re married and each you and your partner did the identical factor, you need to observe the steps beneath for each your self and your partner.

1099-R for Recharacterization

This part solely applies to the second instance state of affairs. For those who contributed on to a Conventional IRA for the earlier 12 months and didn’t recharacterize (the primary instance state of affairs), please skip this part and soar over to the conversion part.

We deal with the 1099-R type for recharacterization first. This 1099-R type has a code “R” in Field 7.

Discover “Retirement Revenue (1099-R)” beneath the Revenue menu.

Click on on the “Add a 1099-R” button.

It’s only a common 1099-R.

Enter the 1099-R for the recharacterization precisely as you’ve gotten it. Field 1 reveals the quantity that was transferred from the Roth IRA to the Conventional IRA whenever you recharacterized your 2022 contribution. Field 2a reveals that the recharacterization isn’t taxable. Field 2b “taxable quantity not decided” isn’t checked. The code in Field 7 is “R.” The “IRA / SEP / SIMPLE” field isn’t checked.

Your 1099-R reveals 2023 however FreeTaxUSA says you need to’ve reported it in your 2022 tax return. The issue is you didn’t have it again then. You couldn’t have reported one thing you didn’t have. Choose the right 12 months and proceed anyway.

The recharacterization wasn’t a rollover.

FreeTaxUSA reveals some alerts. The zero taxable revenue on the 1099-R is appropriate. Code “R” in Field 7 can also be appropriate. Though you didn’t embrace this 1099-R final 12 months since you didn’t have it at the moment, you don’t have to amend final 12 months’s tax return for those who reported the recharacterization another way whenever you adopted Cut up-12 months Backdoor Roth IRA in FreeTaxUSA, 1st 12 months. You might have to amend final 12 months’s return provided that you didn’t report the recharacterization final 12 months in any respect.

You’re executed with the 1099-R type for the recharacterization. Click on on the “Add a 1099-R” button so as to add the opposite 1099-R for the conversion.

1099-R for Conversion

The 1099-R for conversion has a code “2” in Field 7 for those who’re beneath age 59-1/2 or a code “7” for those who’re 59-1/2 or older.

It’s additionally an everyday 1099-R.

Field 1 reveals the quantity transformed to Roth. For those who contributed to a Conventional IRA for 2023 in 2023 and transformed in 2023 (a “clear” backdoor Roth) on prime of changing the 2022 contribution in 2023, the quantity on the 1099-R consists of two years’ price of contributions. It’s regular to have the identical quantity because the taxable quantity in Field 2a when Field 2b is checked saying “taxable quantity not decided.” Ensure to decide on the right code in Field 7 to match your 1099-R. The “IRA / SEP / SIMPLE” field is checked.

Your refund quantity drops after you enter the 1099-R. Don’t panic. It’s regular and non permanent. The refund quantity will come up once we end all the pieces.

It’s not an inherited IRA.

It’s a Roth conversion. 100% of the quantity on the 1099-R was transformed from a Conventional IRA to a Roth IRA.

You might be executed with this 1099-R for the conversion. Repeat in case you have one other 1099-R. For those who’re married and each of you transformed to Roth, take note of whose 1099-R it’s whenever you enter the second. You’ll have issues for those who assign each 1099-R types to the identical individual once they belong to every partner. Click on on “No, Proceed” when you’ve gotten entered all of the 1099-R types.

Reply “Sure” right here since you had a Conventional IRA contribution from final 12 months.

Get the worth for the primary field from final 12 months’s Type 8606 Line 14 (assuming that you simply did final 12 months accurately). For those who didn’t have a Type 8606 final 12 months since you didn’t do it accurately, your foundation is the quantity of your 2022 Conventional IRA contribution minus any deduction you took on final 12 months’s Schedule 1 Line 20. The whole foundation is $6,000 in our instance.

The second field must be zero whenever you emptied all of your Conventional IRAs after changing them to Roth and also you don’t have any SEP or SIMPLE IRAs. For those who had a couple of {dollars} of earnings posted within the Conventional IRA after you transformed and also you left them within the account, get the worth out of your year-end assertion and put it within the second field. The software program will apply the pro-rata rule.

The third field also needs to be zero whenever you made your 2023 contribution in 2023.

We didn’t take any catastrophe distribution.

Now proceed with all different revenue gadgets till you might be executed with revenue.

Clear Backdoor Roth On High

For those who did a “clear” backdoor Roth on prime of changing the 2022 contribution in 2023 (contributed to a Conventional IRA for 2023 in 2023 and transformed in 2023), the conversion a part of the clear backdoor Roth is already included within the 1099-R type we simply accomplished. Now we do the contribution half.

Discover the “IRA Contributions” part beneath the “Deductions / Credit” menu.

Reply “Sure” to the primary query and enter your contribution to your Conventional IRA. Go away the reply to “Did you recharacterize” at No. We contributed $6,500 in our instance.

Your refund quantity goes up once more after you enter the contribution.

We didn’t contribute to a SEP, SIMPLE, or solo 401k plan on this instance. Reply Sure for those who did.

“Withdraw” means pulling cash out of a Conventional IRA again to your checking account. Changing to Roth is just not a withdrawal. Reply “No” right here.

FreeTaxUSA reveals the identical web page we noticed earlier than within the conversion part. Verify and proceed.

It tells us we don’t get a deduction as a result of our revenue is just too excessive. For those who see a deduction right here it means the software program thinks your revenue qualifies for a deduction, which can or will not be appropriate. Please see the Troubleshooting part.

Taxable Revenue

You’re executed with the 1099-R types. Let’s have a look at how they present up in your tax return. Click on on the three dots on the highest proper above the IRA Deduction Abstract after which click on on “Preview Return.”

Search for Strains 4a and 4b in your Type 1040.

Line 4a reveals the quantity in your 1099-R for the Roth conversion. Line 4b reveals the taxable quantity, which is the earnings between the time you contributed to your Conventional IRA and the time you transformed it to Roth. The taxable quantity on Line 4b can be zero for those who didn’t have any earnings.

Go towards the tip within the pop-up to search out Type 8606. It reveals these for our instance:

Troubleshooting

For those who adopted the steps and you aren’t getting the anticipated outcomes, right here are some things to test.

Conversion Is Taxed

For those who don’t have a retirement plan at work, you’ve gotten a better revenue restrict to take a deduction in your Conventional IRA contribution. You probably have a retirement plan at work however your revenue is low sufficient, you might be additionally eligible for a deduction in your Conventional IRA contribution. FreeTaxUSA offers you the deduction if it sees that your revenue qualifies. It doesn’t provide the selection of constructing it non-deductible.

A part of your conversion could possibly be taxed since you took a deduction on the Conventional IRA contribution final 12 months or this 12 months. You see whether or not you took a deduction by taking a look at Schedule 1 Line 20 on final 12 months’s and this 12 months’s tax returns.

The taxable Roth IRA conversion and the deduction in your Conventional IRA contribution offset one another to create a wash. That is regular and it doesn’t trigger any issues whenever you certainly don’t have a retirement plan at work or when your revenue is sufficiently low.

For those who even have a retirement plan at work, possibly the software program didn’t see it. Whether or not you’ve gotten a retirement plan at work is marked by the “Retirement plan” field in Field 13 of your W-2.

Possibly you forgot the test it whenever you entered the W-2. Double-check the “Retirement plan” field in Field 13 of your (and your partner’s) W-2 entries in FreeTaxUSA to ensure they match the W-2.

Self vs Partner

In case you are married, ensure you don’t have the 1099-R and the IRA contribution blended up between your self and your partner. For those who inadvertently assigned two 1099-Rs to at least one individual as a substitute of 1 for you and one in your partner, the second 1099-R is not going to match up with a Conventional IRA contribution made by a partner. For those who entered a 1099-R for each your self and your partner however you solely entered one Conventional IRA contribution, you’ll be taxed on one 1099-R.