Posts tagged Rollover
Understanding the RMD Delay: What Retirees Need to Know

The SECURE 2.0 Act has brought significant changes to retirement planning—especially for retirees aged 72 and older. One of the most significant updates is the delay for retirees to take required minimum distributions (RMDs), which now begin at age 73 (age 75 in 2033). While this offers flexibility, it also introduces new challenges that retirees should understand. 

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Top IRA Questions from Ascend

Every year industry professionals gather with Ascensus trainers at the Ascend conference. Not only do they get to continue their education and refine their expertise in retirement, health, and education savings plans, but they get to submit questions to our highly-qualified trainers. Here are the top questions asked and answered over the week.

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Employer-Sponsored Retirement Plan Rollovers: What Are My Client’s Options?

When individuals retire or leave their employer, they must decide what to do with the accumulated savings in their retirement plan. Typically, they will roll over the assets to another qualified retirement plan or an IRA in order to keep the assets in a tax-deferred account. If they decide to withdraw the assets, they may end up having to include the distribution amount in their taxable income for the year.

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Violating the One-Per-12-Month Rollover Rule: A Case Study

The one-per-12-month IRA rollover rules were radically revised in 2014 as a result of a U.S. Tax Court decision, restricting rollovers to individuals rather than to IRAs. A real-life case study of a one-per-12-month rollover rule violation taken directly from our IRA consulting lines demonstrates how to protect your financial organization while helping your clients.

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Handling Divorce Assets in Qualified Retirement Plans and IRAs: There Is a Difference

There are differences between how various retirement assets are treated in divorce. Qualified retirement plan assets can be distributed to a former spouse through a document known as a qualified domestic relations order. IRA assets subject to divorce proceedings are paid through a “transfer incident to divorce.”

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Transfers Are Nonreportable; No Such Thing as Prior-Year Conversion; 12-Month Limit Only for IRA-to-IRA Rollovers

What should your clients do if an IRA-to-IRA transfer they’ve done is reported to the IRS? Are clients allowed to do prior-year conversions? Does an IRA-to-IRA rollover after a conversion of those same assets violate the one-per-12-month rule?

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