(Published February 20, 2019) Reporting certain distributions from individual retirement accounts (IRAs) can be confusing. This article will examine how to report the removal of an IRA excess contribution, and a recharacterization distribution, both of which from a reporting standpoint are dependent on the year of the original deposit vs. the year of distribution.
(Published February 19, 2019) On December 28, 2018 the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Information Letter 2018-0033 detailing specific situations of when an employer has a right to ask a Health Savings Account (HSA) custodian/trustee for the return of its mistaken HSA contributions. The scenarios described in the Information Letter are in addition to those described in IRS Notice 2008-59, Q&As 23 and 24.