IRA Reporting to the IRS - Getting it Right!
"It's ALL about the reporting" - I say hundreds of times a year when asked about policy and procedures on IRAs. Sometimes we fail to connect the frontline transactions to the end result, and therefore how it reports to the IRS. If we don't understand the transaction descriptions when we are coding an IRA transaction, there's a good chance it won't report correctly to the IRS - sometimes resulting in a letter and bill issued to the customer.