When filing taxes, it’s important to make sure you’re reporting all of your income correctly. That includes making note of early distributions from qualified retirement plans or other tax-favored ...

If you own an IRA or Roth IRA, here are some tips regarding tax forms you must file--or should file even if not required. It's not always self-evident how the recipient is supposed to report IRA ...

An early distribution from an Individual Retirement Arrangement (IRA) or a qualified retirement plan need not be a “taxing” experience, according to the IRS. Any payment that you receive from your IRA ...

A trio of IRS forms can lead you astray regarding proper tax treatment of your retirement benefits. Form 5498 for inherited IRA: The first is IRS Form 5498, the "information return" your IRA provider ...

According to IRA expert Ed Slott (www.irahelp.com ), the penalty protection for missed required minimum distributions (RMDs) may not be as good as it seems. The SECURE 2.0 Act, passed at the end of ...

The penalty for missing a required minimum distribution (RMD) is one of the largest in the Tax Code. For years it was 50 percent of the amount that should have been taken but was not. That penalty was ...

Last month, the Internal Revenue Service released its 2017 audit data for the 2016 tax year, during which the IRS audited almost 1.1 million tax returns, approximately 0.5 percent of all returns filed ...