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What clients won’t see on this year’s 1099-R form

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Be ready to help worried clients (and their accountants), who will be calling you about 'mistakes' on their 1099-Rs regarding distributions from their IRAs. What they'll be calling about won’t be what’s on their form, but rather what’s not on there.

As you read this in early February, your clients are receiving their annual 1099-R forms that report distributions taken in 2020 from their IRAs and other retirement accounts.

Once they look the forms over (or their tax preparer does), they'll be on the phone with you complaining about the horrib

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