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State Income Tax Withholding and Reporting will be determined using your legal residency at the time the |
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distribution is made. |
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The tax determination of your distribution can be complex and does vary based on your state of residency. |
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You may want to consult with your own tax advisor to determine the proper tax treatment of your distribution. |
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Voluntary Withholding - If any portion of your payment is not an eligible rollover distribution but is taxable, |
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the mandatory withholding rules do not apply. A 10% voluntary Federal Income Tax Withholding will |
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automatically apply unless you elect to have no Federal Income Tax withheld. |
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Sixty-Day Rollover Option - If you have an eligible rollover distribution paid to you, you may still decide to roll |
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over all or part of it to an eligible retirement plan that accepts rollovers. If you decide to roll over, you must |
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make the rollover within sixty (60) days after you receive the payment. The taxable portion of your payment |
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that is rolled over will not be taxed until you take it out of the eligible retirement plan. You may roll over up to |
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100% of the amount that was an eligible rollover distribution, including an amount equal to the 20% that was |
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withheld. If, within the sixty (60) day period, you choose to roll over 100%, you must contribute other money to |
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the eligible retirement plan to replace the 20% that was withheld. If you roll over only the 80% that you |
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received, the 20% that was withheld will be included in your taxable income for the year. |
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For example, if your eligible rollover distribution from an eligible retirement plan was $10,000 and you chose to |
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have it paid to you, you will receive $8,000, and $2,000 will be sent to the IRS as Federal Income Tax |
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Withholding. Within sixty (60) days after receiving the $8,000 you may roll over up to $10,000 to an eligible |
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retirement plan that accepts rollovers. To do this, you roll over the $8,000 you received from the plan, and |
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you will have to find $2,000 from other sources. In this case, the entire $10,000 is not taxed until you take it |
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out of the eligible retirement plan, and you may be eligible to receive a refund of the $2,000 withheld when you |
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file your income tax return. |
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If, on the other hand, you roll over only $8,000, the $2,000 you did not roll over is taxed in the year it was |
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withheld. When you file your income tax return, you may get a refund of part of the $2,000 withheld. (However, |
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any refund is likely to be larger if you roll over the entire $10,000.) |
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.Additional 10% Premature Withdrawal Tax If You Are Under Age 59½ - If you receive a payment before |
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you reach age 59½ (and no other statutory exemption applies) and you do not roll it over, you may have to |
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pay an extra premature distribution tax, in addition to Federal Income Tax. Unless an exception applies, you |
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will have to pay this extra tax, equal to 10% of the taxable portion of the payment, when you file your income |
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tax return. The additional 10% tax generally does not apply to (1) payments that are paid after you separate |
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from service with your Employer during or after the year you reach age 55, (2) payments that are paid |
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because you retire due to disability, (3) payments that are paid as equal (or almost equal) payments over your |
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life or life expectancy (or your and your Beneficiary’s lives or life expectancies), (4) dividends paid with respect |
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to stock by an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) as described in IRS Code Section 404(k), (5) |
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payments that are paid directly to the government to satisfy a federal tax levy, (6) payments that are paid to an |
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Alternate Payee under a Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO), or (7) payments that do not exceed the |
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amount of your deductible medical expenses. See IRS Form 5329 for more information on the additional 10% |
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tax. |
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This additional 10% tax is not applicable to distributions from a Governmental 457 Plan, but will be applicable |
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to monies originally contributed to another eligible retirement plan (e.g. 401, 403(b) or traditional IRA) subject |
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to this tax which were subsequently rolled over to the Governmental 457 Plan. Any amount rolled from a |
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Governmental 457 plan to another type of non governmental eligible retirement plan (e.g. 401, 403(b) or |
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traditional IRA) will become subject to the additional 10% tax, if it is distributed to you before you reach age |
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59 ½, unless one of the exceptions applies. |
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With some exceptions, the rules summarized above also generally apply to payments to Surviving Spouses of |
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Employees, and to Spouses or former Spouses, who are Alternate Payees. (You are an Alternate Payee if |
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your interest in a 403(b) Program or 401 Qualified Plan results from a “Qualified Domestic Relations Order” or |
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your interest in a Governmental 457 Plan results from a plan approved or certified “Domestic Relations Order” |
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issued in connection with a divorce or legal separation.) Some of these rules also apply to a deceased |
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Employee’s Beneficiary who is not a Spouse. |
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• If you are a Surviving Spouse or an alternate payee (spouse or former spouse), you have the same |
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choices as the employee; therefore you may choose to have an eligible rollover distribution paid in a |
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direct rollover to an eligible retirement plan that accepts rollovers or paid to you. If you have the payment |
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paid to you, you may keep it or roll it over yourself to an eligible retirement plan. If you do not request a |
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direct rollover and you have the payment paid to you, we are required by federal law to withhold 20% of |
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the taxable amount and send it to the IRS as Federal Income Tax Withholding. |
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• If you are a Beneficiary other than the Surviving Spouse or alternate payee (spouse or former |
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spouse), you cannot choose a direct rollover and you cannot roll over the payment yourself. A 10% |
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Federal Income Tax Withholding will automatically apply unless you elect to have no Federal Income Tax |
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withheld. |
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If you are a Surviving Spouse, an Alternate Payee, or another Beneficiary, your payment is generally not |
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subject to the additional 10% Premature Withdrawal Tax described above. You may also be able to use the |
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special tax treatment for lump-sum distributions and the special rule for payments that include Employer |
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Stock, as described below. If you receive a payment because of the Employee’s death, you may be able to |
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treat the payment as a lump-sum distribution if the Employee met the appropriate age requirements, whether |
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or not the Employee had five (5) years of participation in the 401 Qualified Plan. |