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Subject: Re: Roth conversion 4 yr rule: tax or income?
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 07:45:36 -0500
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>If I convert today, do I take the conversion amount, divide by four, and add it
>to my income over the next four years, or do I calculate my additional tax
>liability, and divide that over four years (adding it to my tax each year)?
In 1998 you have two choices:
(a) report the entire taxable amount of the conversion as income for
the 1998 tax year, or
(b) report 1/4 of the taxable amount as income in tax years 1998, 1999,
2000, and 2001.
For 1999 and beyond, you can only do (a).
Rich Carreiro
rlcarr@animato.pn.com
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