Instructions for Recipient
Generally, distributions from pensions, annuities, profit-sharing and
retirement plans (including section 457 state and local government
plans), IRAs, insurance contracts, etc., are reported to recipients on
Form 1099-R.
Qualified plans. If your annuity starting date is after 1997, you must
use the simplified method to figure your taxable amount if your payer
did not show the taxable amount in box 2a. See the instructions for
Form 1040, 1040A, or 1040NR.
IRAs. For distributions from a traditional individual retirement
arrangement (IRA), simplified employee pension (SEP), or savings
incentive match plan for employees (SIMPLE), generally the payer is
not required to compute the taxable amount. See the Form 1040,
1040A, or 1040NR instructions to determine the taxable amount. If
you are at least age 70½, you must take minimum distributions from
your IRA (other than a Roth IRA). If you do not, you are subject to a
50% excise tax on the amount that should have been distributed. See
Pub. 590-A and Pub. 590-B for more information on IRAs.
Roth IRAs. For distributions from a Roth IRA, generally the payer is
not required to compute the taxable amount. You must compute any
taxable amount on Form 8606. An amount shown in box 2a may be
taxable earnings on an excess contribution.
Loans treated as distributions. If you borrow money from a qualified
plan, section 403(b) plan, or governmental section 457(b) plan, you
may have to treat the loan as a distribution and include all or part of
the amount borrowed in your income. There are exceptions to this
rule. If your loan is taxable, Code L will be shown in box 7. See
Pub. 575.
Recipient's identification number. For your protection, this form
may show only the last four digits of your social security number
(SSN), individual taxpayer identification number (ITIN), adoption
taxpayer identification number (ATIN), or employer identification
number (EIN). However, the issuer has reported your complete
identification number to the IRS.
FATCA filing requirement. If the FATCA filing requirement box is
checked, the payer is reporting on this Form 1099 to satisfy its
chapter 4 account reporting requirement. You also may have a filing
requirement. See the Instructions for Form 8938.
Account number. May show an account or other unique number the
payer assigned to distinguish your account.
Box 1. Shows the total amount you received this year. The amount
may have been a direct rollover, a transfer or conversion to a Roth
IRA, a recharacterized IRA contribution; or you may have received it
as periodic payments, as nonperiodic payments, or as a total
distribution. Report the amount on Form 1040, 1040A, or 1040NR on
the line for “IRA distributions” or “Pensions and annuities” (or the line
for “Taxable amount”), and on Form 8606, as applicable. However, if
this is a lump-sum distribution, see Form 4972. If you have not
reached minimum retirement age, report your disability payments on
the line for “Wages, salaries, tips, etc.” on your tax return. Also report
on that line permissible withdrawals from eligible automatic
contribution arrangements and corrective distributions of excess
deferrals, excess contributions, or excess aggregate contributions
except if the distribution is of designated Roth contributions or your
after-tax contributions or if you are self-employed.
If a life insurance, annuity, qualified long-term care, or endowment
contract was transferred tax free to another trustee or contract issuer,
an amount will be shown in this box and Code 6 will be shown in box
7. If a charge or payment was made against the cash value of an
annuity contract or the cash surrender value of a life insurance
contract for the purchase of qualified long-term care insurance, an
amount will be shown in this box and Code W will be shown in box 7.
You need not report these amounts on your tax return.
Box 2a. This part of the distribution is generally taxable. If there is no
entry in this box, the payer may not have all the facts needed to figure
the taxable amount. In that case, the first box in box 2b should be
checked. You may want to get one of the free publications from the
IRS to help you figure the taxable amount. See Additional information
on the back of Copy 2. For an IRA distribution, see IRAs and Roth
IRAs on this page. For a direct rollover, other than from a qualified
plan to a Roth IRA, zero should be shown, and you must enter zero
(-0-) on the “Taxable amount” line of your tax return. If you roll over a
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