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How to enter MRD in Form 2210

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January 9, 2025
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Dear All:

I am retired and taking Minimum Required Distribution starting a few years ago. It is a significant part of my income nowadays. I am taking it near the end of the year every year. My question is, when I using Form 2210 for my estimated tax, should I treat the MRD as the part of my AGI of the fourth period (Sept. - Dec.) or evenly distributed over the entire year. I mainly use it to pay my taxes. As I know, IRS treat it as withholding taxes and treat it as paying evenly over the entire year. The question is how do they treat if as my income.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Best answer by dmertz

When annualizing income on Schedule AI for Form 2210, retirement distributions are income for the tax quarter in which you actually received the distribution, in this case, Q4.

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dmertzAnswer

When annualizing income on Schedule AI for Form 2210, retirement distributions are income for the tax quarter in which you actually received the distribution, in this case, Q4.

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fuyunlingAuthor

@dmertz

Thank you very much! You have solved all of the problems!

Fuyun

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fuyunlingAuthor

If your predicted 2025 income produces estimated tax payments less than that required to meet the safe-harbor based on last year's tax liability and your prediction is low, you might end up with a penalty. I always just go by the safe-harbor based on last year's tax liability and just lower my Q4 estimated tax payment if it will be too high relative to my actual tax liability that I determine in early January. I'll generally know within about $100 what my tax liability ends up being once I get all of the forms reporting my income. The only variable at that point is knowing how much of various dividends are qualified dividends. To be safe, I can assume that all of the dividends are nonqualified and pay a bit more in estimated taxes than necessary in early January, then adjust my next Q1 estimated tax payment to reflect whatever overpayment that I apply to the following year.

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