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2020 IRA Deadlines Are Approaching

Feb 5, 2021

April 15 IRS IRA Deadlines
Here is what you need to know

Financially, many of us associate April with taxes – but we should also associate December with important IRA deadlines.

 

December 31, 2021 is the deadline to take your Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) from certain individual retirement accounts.

    

April 15, 2021 is the deadline for making annual contributions to a traditional IRA, Roth IRA, and certain other retirement accounts.1 

    

Some people may not realize when they can make their IRA contribution. You can make a yearly IRA contribution between January 1 of the current year and April 15 of the next year. Accordingly, you can make your IRA contribution for 2020 any time from January 1, 2020 to April 15, 2021.2

    

Thanks to the SECURE Act, traditional IRA owners can now contribute to their IRAs past age 72 as long as they have taxable income. In addition, the I.R.S. has updated their life expectancy tables which means RMD’s will be overall lower than normal.

 

If you are making a 2020 IRA contribution in early 2021, you must tell the investment company hosting the IRA account for which year you are contributing. If you fail to indicate the tax year that the contribution applies to, the custodian firm may make a default assumption that the contribution is for the current year (and note exactly that to the I.R.S.).

   

So, write “2021 IRA contribution” or “2020 IRA contribution,” as applicable, in the memo area of your check, plainly and simply. Be sure to write your account number on the check. If you make your contribution electronically, double-check that these details are communicated.

 

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