Required Minimum Distributions: Compliance and Planning

Overview

Required minimum distributions (RMDs) from employer retirement plans and IRAs must be made or steep penalties will be incurred. Planning opportunities exist in certain situations to minimize distributions. Also, special rules exist for inherited retirement funds. Your clients depend on you to help them navigate the rules regarding required minimum distributions and the taxation of distributions. This course addresses compliance issues and planning opportunities regarding required minimum distributions.

Objectives

Understand the calculation of required minimum distributions

Understand when required minimum distributions are required

Understand how to treat inherited retirement accounts and how to utilize stretch IRAs

Understand the importance of designated beneficiaries of retirement accounts

Discuss the process of requesting the abatement of penalties for failure to make required minimum distributions and how to correct a failure to make a required distribution

Understand how to handle an incorrect Form 1099-R

Discuss how distributions are taxed when the retirement account has basis that can be returned free of tax

Understand the changes to RMD, penalty, and rollover rules under SECURE Act 2.0

Highlights

Minimum distribution requirement changes by the SECURE Act 2.0

Latest guidance issued by the IRS related to required minimum distributions

The calculation of required minimum distributions using the Uniform Life Table

Required minimum distributions from multiple accounts

New 401(k) rules of SECURE Act 2.0

Inherited employer retirement accounts and IRAs: Changes to spousal and non-spousal beneficiary distribution options and stretch IRAs under the SECURE Act

Required minimum distributions in the year of death

Roth conversions for estate planning and avoiding required minimum distributions

Timing of distributions for maximum tax-free compounding

Section 529 rollovers to Roth accounts under SECURE Act 2.0

Qualified charitable distributions from IRAs and the relationship between deductible IRAs and QCDs under the new anti-abuse rules. Includes SECURE Act 2.0 rollovers to CRUTs and CRATs

Taxation of distributions

Penalties for missed required minimum distributions and reasonable cause for abatement of penalties. Includes SECURE Act 2.0 changes

Designed For

Any tax practitioner that desires to improve customer service related to required minimum distribution compliance and planning

Prerequisites

A basic understanding of retirement plan distributions and taxation of distributions

Preparation

None

Notice

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Leader(s):

Douglas Stives

Leader Bios

Douglas Stives

Douglas P. Stives, CPA, PFS Monmouth University / West Long Branch, NJ Douglas (Doug) Stives, CPA, MBA, is a full-time professor of accounting at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey, where he started in 2006. Doug was honored as the Outstanding Business Professor of the Year in 2009 and 2016. He graduated from Lehigh University with a BS in 1968 and an MBA in 1969. Doug started his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1969 and later joined a small CPA firm that became The Curchin Group, located in Red Bank, New Jersey, where he was a partner for 34 years and continues as a consultant. In 1989 and 1990, Doug was the youngest president of the New Jersey Society of CPAs. He served the AICPA as a representative to Council, a member of the Tax Division Executive Committee, and chair of several committees. Doug is a frequent speaker for many state CPA societies. He’s been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and other national publications, and he has appeared on CNN, CNBC, PBS, and the three major networks. Doug remains active with his college fraternity, the Kappa Alpha Society, where he served as national president for several years. He also served on many charity boards and was chairman of the Community YMCA in Red Bank, New Jersey.

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