The earlier publish Cut up-Yr Backdoor Roth IRA in FreeTaxUSA, 1st Yr 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 while you transformed it to Roth in 2023. You obtained a 1099-R kind itemizing this $6,200 Roth conversion.

It’s best to’ve already reported the contribution half in your 2022 tax return by following Cut up-Yr Backdoor Roth IRA in FreeTaxUSA, 1st Yr. The IRA custodian despatched you a 1099-R kind for the conversion in 2023. This publish exhibits you the right way to put it into FreeTaxUSA.

Right here’s the second instance situation:

You contributed $6,000 to a Roth IRA for 2022 in 2022. You realized that your earnings was too excessive while 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 while you transformed it to Roth in 2023. You obtained two 1099-R types, one for $6,100 and one other for $6,200.

It’s best to’ve already reported the recharacterized contribution in your 2022 tax return by following Cut up-Yr Backdoor Roth IRA in FreeTaxUSA, 1st Yr. The IRA custodian despatched you two 1099-R types, one for the recharacterization, and the opposite for the conversion. This publish exhibits you the right way to put each of them into FreeTaxUSA.

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

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

In case you’re married and each you and your partner did the identical factor, you need to observe the steps under for each your self and your partner.

1099-R for Recharacterization

This part solely applies to the second instance situation. In case you contributed on to a Conventional IRA for the earlier 12 months and didn’t recharacterize (the primary instance situation), please skip this part and soar over to the conversion part.

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

Discover “Retirement Revenue (1099-R)” below 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 will have it. Field 1 exhibits the quantity that was transferred from the Roth IRA to the Conventional IRA while you recharacterized your 2022 contribution. Field 2a exhibits 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 exhibits 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 exhibits some alerts. The zero taxable earnings on the 1099-R is right. Code “R” in Field 7 can be right. Though you didn’t embody this 1099-R final 12 months since you didn’t have it at the moment, you don’t must amend final 12 months’s tax return when you reported the recharacterization differently while you adopted Cut up-Yr Backdoor Roth IRA in FreeTaxUSA, 1st Yr. You could must amend final 12 months’s return provided that you didn’t report the recharacterization final 12 months in any respect.

You’re accomplished with the 1099-R kind 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 when you’re below age 59-1/2 or a code “7” when you’re 59-1/2 or older.

It’s additionally an everyday 1099-R.

Field 1 exhibits the quantity transformed to Roth. In case you contributed to a Conventional IRA for 2023 in 2023 and transformed in 2023 (a “clear” backdoor Roth) on high of changing the 2022 contribution in 2023, the quantity on the 1099-R consists of two years’ value 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.” Make certain 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 short-term. The refund quantity will come up once we end the whole lot.

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 accomplished with this 1099-R for the conversion. Repeat if in case you have one other 1099-R. In case you’re married and each of you transformed to Roth, take note of whose 1099-R it’s while you enter the second. You’ll have issues when you assign each 1099-R types to the identical particular person after they belong to every partner. Click on on “No, Proceed” when you will have 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 Kind 8606 Line 14 (assuming that you simply did final 12 months accurately). In case you didn’t have a Kind 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 needs to be zero while you emptied all of your Conventional IRAs after changing them to Roth and also you don’t have any SEP or SIMPLE IRAs. In case you had just a few {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 while you made your 2023 contribution in 2023.

We didn’t take any catastrophe distribution.

Now proceed with all different earnings objects till you might be accomplished with earnings.

Clear Backdoor Roth On Prime

In case you did a “clear” backdoor Roth on high 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 kind we simply accomplished. Now we do the contribution half.

Discover the “IRA Contributions” part below 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 when you did.

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

FreeTaxUSA exhibits the identical web page we noticed earlier than within the conversion part. Affirm and proceed.

It tells us we don’t get a deduction as a result of our earnings is just too excessive. In case you see a deduction right here it means the software program thinks your earnings qualifies for a deduction, which can or is probably not right. Please see the Troubleshooting part.

Taxable Revenue

You’re accomplished 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 Traces 4a and 4b in your Kind 1040.

Line 4a exhibits the quantity in your 1099-R for the Roth conversion. Line 4b exhibits 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 could be zero when you didn’t have any earnings.

Go towards the tip within the pop-up to seek out Kind 8606. It exhibits these for our instance:

Troubleshooting

In case you adopted the steps and you aren’t getting the anticipated outcomes, right here are some things to examine.

Conversion Is Taxed

In case you don’t have a retirement plan at work, you will have the next earnings restrict to take a deduction in your Conventional IRA contribution. When you have a retirement plan at work however your earnings 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 earnings qualifies. It doesn’t provide the selection of constructing it non-deductible.

A part of your conversion may very well 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 to your Conventional IRA contribution offset one another to create a wash. That is regular and it doesn’t trigger any issues while you certainly don’t have a retirement plan at work or when your earnings is sufficiently low.

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

Possibly you forgot the examine it while 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

If you’re married, be sure you don’t have the 1099-R and the IRA contribution combined up between your self and your partner. In case you inadvertently assigned two 1099-Rs to at least one particular person as a substitute of 1 for you and one to your partner, the second 1099-R is not going to match up with a Conventional IRA contribution made by a partner. In case you 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.