Beware Of the One-per-12-Month IRA Rollover Limitation Beginning In 2015
Article Highlights: 60-Day limit New interpretation New one-per-12-month-period rollover rule Types of plans included The tax code allows an individual to take a distribution from his or her IRA account and avoid the tax and early distribution penalties if the distribution is redeposited to an IRA account owned by the taxpayer within 60 days of receiving the distribution. Early in 2014, in a tax court case, the court ruled that taxpayers could only have one IRA rollover per 12-month period. This was contrary to the IRS’s long-standing one rollover per every IRA account every 12 months. This far more liberal position was also included in published IRS guidance. However, contrary