Understanding the Roth Termination Form is crucial for individuals undergoing employment termination, retirement, disability, or in the case of plan termination, as it guides them through the process of distributing their plan assets. This form is mandatory for processing distributions and requires the participant to be provided with a Special Tax Notice Regarding Plan Payments, ensuring they're informed about the potential tax implications of their decisions. Completing the form correctly involves filling out personal information, identifying the qualifying reason for distribution, choosing the method of distribution, and signing an acknowledgment that confirms an understanding of the penalties and taxes that might apply to the distribution. Notably, the form accounts for different distribution options such as a lump sum, direct transfer, or both, and includes special considerations for distributions of Roth 401(k) assets, highlighting the mandatory 20% federal income tax withholding for non-qualified distributions not rolled over. The option for direct transfer of Traditional 401(k) amounts to a Roth IRA is also explored, pointing out income limitations and tax implications. The form’s extensive details underscore the importance of consulting with a tax advisor to make informed decisions, particularly when considering direct transfers or distributions that might affect one's tax situation. This introduction aims to encapsulate the essence of the Roth Termination Form, emphasizing its role in navigating the financial aspects of plan distributions following employment termination or plan cessation.
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Form Name | Roth Termination Form |
Form Length | 13 pages |
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Other names | imca rc easy link roth termination form, adp termination form 99 3792 non roth, adp termination form, roth non roth termination form |
ROTH TERMINATION FORM
Participant must be provided with the Special Tax Notice Regarding Plan Payments.
INSTRUCTIONS
Use this form to process plan distributions due to termination of employment including: retirement or disability,* or in the event of plan termination. All sections must be completed for your request to be processed. If you are unsure if your Roth 401(k) distribution is a Qualified Distribution please read your Summary Plan Description.
Section I: Complete your personal information.
Section II: Check ( ) one box in this section to identify the qualifying reason for the distribution. Identify the effective date of the termination.
Note: If the Plan’s records as recorded at ADP do not reflect that you have 5 years of Roth 401(k) participation or your distribution is not for a qualifying reason under Roth 401(k) Rules and you have elected a distribution of Roth 401(k) assets other than a rollover distribution, the taxable portion of the distribution will be subject to the mandatory 20% federal income tax withholding.
*Definition: Roth Permanent Disability - unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in your death or to be of
Section III: Check ( ) one box to identify the method of distribution for both the Traditional 401(k) money types and the Roth 401(k) money types and complete any additional requested information. The “Installments” and “Deferred” options are not available if reason for termination is “Termination of Plan” or account value (excluding any rollover account) is $5,000 or less. If this section is not completed and the account balance (excluding any rollover amount) exceeds $5,000, then the distribution will be deferred.
Note: As required by law, a lump sum Traditional 401(k) distribution or
Special note regarding direct transfers of Traditional 401(k) amounts to a Roth IRA: Until 2010, participants wishing to elect a direct transfer of Traditional 401(k) amounts (amounts not attributable to Roth contributions) to a Roth IRA must have modified adjusted gross income of $100,000 or less for the year of the direct transfer and may not be married filing a separate income tax return. The Plan Administrator is not responsible for determining eligibility to elect direct transfer to a Roth IRA. Traditional 401(k) amounts transferred
to a Roth IRA must be included in the participant's gross income, but are not subject to 10% excise tax for premature
distributions. No amount will be withheld from a direct transfer of Traditional 401(k) amounts to a Roth IRA for federal income
tax purposes. CAUTION: This means that you will be responsible for making sure you are able to pay the full amount of all required income taxes in connection with such a rollover. Participants considering a direct transfer of Traditional 401(k) amounts to a Roth IRA are strongly encouraged to consult their tax advisor before making their election.
Section IV: Read the acknowledgment, sign, date and return the completed form to your prior employer for review and approval.
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ROTH TERMINATION FORM
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IIIFUNDS DISTRIBUTION ELECTION (check only one)
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Employer Plan (Qualified Plan, 403(a) Qualified Annuity, §457 Plan, or 403(b)
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TRADITIONAL 401(k) – If you have chosen Both Direct Transfer & Lump Sum, please select the dollar or percent of your Traditional 401(k) account to be transferred. The remaining amount will be paid to you in a lump sum.
Direct transfer amount: $. (Must be at least $500) OR%
ROTH 401(k) – If you have chosen Both Direct Transfer & Lump Sum, please select the dollar or percent of your Roth 401(k) account to be transferred. The remaining amount will be paid to you in a lump sum.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND SIGNATURE
I hereby authorize the distribution of funds from my account according to the directions identified above. I understand that there may be certain penalties and/or taxes due. By signing this form, I certify that within the last 180 days I have received a notice describing the tax consequences of my distribution options and the material features of the optional forms of payment available under the Plan. I am aware that I have the right under the Plan to defer distribution until I attain age 70½ if my account balance excluding any rollover account is greater than $5,000. I am aware that the Internal Revenue Service recommends that I take 30 days to consider my distribution options; however, by returning this signed form prior to the expiration of the
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SPECIAL TAX NOTICE
PLEASE READ THIS NOTICE IF YOU ARE RECEIVING A DISTRIBUTION FROM ANY OF YOUR PLAN ACCOUNTS OTHER THAN A DESIGNATED ROTH ACCOUNT (FOR EXAMPLE, YOUR
For Payments Not From a Designated Roth Account
YOUR ROLLOVER OPTIONS
You are receiving this notice because all or a portion of a payment you are receiving from a
This notice describes the rollover rules that apply to payments from the Plan that are not from a designated Roth account (a type of account with special tax rules in some employer plans). If you also receive a payment from a designated Roth account in the Plan, you will be provided a different notice for that payment, and the Plan administrator or the payor will tell you the amount that is being paid from each account.
Rules that apply to most payments from a plan are described in the “General Information About Rollovers” section. Special rules that only apply in certain circumstances are described in the “Special Rules and Options” section.
GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT ROLLOVERS
How can a rollover affect my taxes?
You will be taxed on a payment from the Plan if you do not roll it over. If you are under age 59½ and do not do a rollover, you will also have to pay a 10% additional income tax on early distributions (unless an exception applies). However, if you do a rollover, you will not have to pay tax until you receive payments later and the 10% additional income tax will not apply if those payments are made after you are age 59½ (or if an exception applies).
Where may I roll over the payment?
You may roll over the payment to either an IRA (an individual retirement account or individual retirement annuity) or an employer plan (a
How do I do a rollover?
There are two ways to do a rollover. You can do either a direct rollover or a
If you do a direct rollover, the Plan will make the payment directly to your IRA or an employer plan. You should contact the IRA sponsor or the administrator of the employer plan for information on how to do a direct rollover.
If you do not do a direct rollover, you may still do a rollover by making a deposit into an IRA or eligible employer plan that will accept it. You will have 60 days after you receive the payment to make the deposit. If you do not do a direct rollover, the Plan is required to withhold 20% of the payment for federal income taxes (up to the amount of cash and property received other than employer stock). This means that, in order to roll over the entire payment in a
How much may I roll over?
If you wish to do a rollover, you may roll over all or part of the amount eligible for rollover. Any payment from the Plan is eligible for rollover, except:
•Certain payments spread over a period of at least 10 years or over your life or life expectancy (or the lives or joint life expectancy of you and your beneficiary)
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•Required minimum distributions after age 70½ (or after death)
•Hardship distributions
•ESOP dividends
•Corrective distributions of contributions that exceed tax law limitations
•Loans treated as deemed distributions (for example, loans in default due to missed payments before your employment ends)
•Cost of life insurance paid by the Plan
•Contributions made under special automatic enrollment rules that are withdrawn pursuant to your request within 90 days of enrollment
•Amounts treated as distributed because of a prohibited allocation of S corporation stock under an ESOP (also, there will generally be adverse tax consequences if you roll over a distribution of S corporation stock to an IRA).
The Plan administrator or the payor can tell you what portion of a payment is eligible for rollover.
If I don't do a rollover, will I have to pay the 10% additional income tax on early distributions?
If you are under age 59½, you will have to pay the 10% additional income tax on early distributions for any payment from the Plan (including amounts withheld for income tax) that you do not roll over, unless one of the exceptions listed below applies. This tax is in addition to the regular income tax on the payment not rolled over.
The 10% additional income tax does not apply to the following payments from the Plan:
•Payments made after you separate from service if you will be at least age 55 in the year of the separation
•Payments that start after you separate from service if paid at least annually in equal or close to equal amounts over your life or life expectancy (or the lives or joint life expectancy of you and your beneficiary)
•Payments from a governmental defined benefit pension plan made after you separate from service if you are a public safety employee and you are at least age 50 in the year of the separation
•Payments made due to disability
•Payments after your death
•Payments of ESOP dividends
•Corrective distributions of contributions that exceed tax law limitations
•Cost of life insurance paid by the Plan
•Contributions made under special automatic enrollment rules that are withdrawn pursuant to your request within 90 days of enrollment
•Payments made directly to the government to satisfy a federal tax levy
•Payments made under a qualified domestic relations order (QDRO)
•Payments up to the amount of your deductible medical expenses
•Certain payments made while you are on active duty if you were a member of a reserve component called to duty after September 11, 2001 for more than 179 days
If I do a rollover to an IRA, will the 10% additional income tax apply to early distributions from the IRA?
If you receive a payment from an IRA when you are under age 59½, you will have to pay the 10% additional income tax on early distributions from the IRA, unless an exception applies. In general, the exceptions to the 10% additional income tax for early distributions from an IRA are the same as the exceptions listed above for early distributions from a plan. However, there are a few differences for payments from an IRA, including:
•There is no exception for payments after separation from service that are made after age 55.
•The exception for qualified domestic relations orders (QDROs) does not apply (although a special rule applies under which, as part of a divorce or separation agreement, a
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•The exception for payments made at least annually in equal or close to equal amounts over a specified period applies without regard to whether you have had a separation from service.
•There are additional exceptions for (1) payments for qualified higher education expenses, (2) payments up to $10,000 used in a qualified
Will I owe State income taxes?
This notice does not describe any State or local income tax rules (including withholding rules).
SPECIAL RULES AND OPTIONS
If your payment includes
You may roll over to an IRA a payment that includes
You may roll over to an employer plan all of a payment that includes
If you miss the
Generally, the
If your payment includes employer stock that you do not roll over
If you do not do a rollover, you can apply a special rule to payments of employer stock (or other employer securities) that are either attributable to
If you have an outstanding loan that is being offset
If you have an outstanding loan from the Plan, your Plan benefit may be offset by the amount of the loan, typically when your employment ends. The loan offset amount is treated as a distribution to you at the time of the offset and will be taxed (including the 10% additional income tax on early distributions, unless an exception applies) unless you do a
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If you were born on or before January 1, 1936
If you were born on or before January 1, 1936 and receive a lump sum distribution that you do not roll over, special rules for calculating the amount of the tax on the payment might apply to you. For more information, see IRS Publication 575, Pension and Annuity Income.
If you are an eligible retired public safety officer and your pension payment is used to pay for health coverage or qualified
If the Plan is a governmental plan, you retired as a public safety officer, and your retirement was by reason of disability or was after normal retirement age, you can exclude from your taxable income plan payments paid directly as premiums to an accident or health plan (or a qualified
If you roll over your payment to a Roth IRA
You can roll over a payment from the Plan made before January 1, 2010 to a Roth IRA only if your modified adjusted gross income is not more than $100,000 for the year the payment is made to you and, if married, you file a joint return. These limitations do not apply to payments made to you from the Plan after 2009. If you wish to roll over the payment to a Roth IRA, but you are not eligible to do a rollover to a Roth IRA until after 2009, you can do a rollover to a traditional IRA and then, after 2009, elect to convert the traditional IRA into a Roth IRA.
If you roll over the payment to a Roth IRA, a special rule applies under which the amount of the payment rolled over (reduced by any
If you roll over the payment to a Roth IRA, later payments from the Roth IRA that are qualified distributions will not be taxed (including earnings after the rollover). A qualified distribution from a Roth IRA is a payment made after you are age 59½ (or after your death or disability, or as a qualified
You cannot roll over a payment from the Plan to a designated Roth account in an employer plan.
If you are not a plan participant
Payments after death of the participant. If you receive a distribution after the participant's death that you do not roll over, the distribution will generally be taxed in the same manner described elsewhere in this notice. However, the 10% additional income tax on early distributions and the special rules for public safety officers do not apply, and the special rule described under the section “If you were born on or before January 1, 1936” applies only if the participant was born on or before January 1, 1936.
If you are a surviving spouse. If you receive a payment from the Plan as the surviving spouse of a deceased participant, you have the same rollover options that the participant would have had, as described elsewhere in this notice. In addition, if you choose to do a rollover to an IRA, you may treat the IRA as your own or as an inherited IRA.
An IRA you treat as your own is treated like any other IRA of yours, so that payments made to you before you are age 59½ will be subject to the 10% additional income tax on early distributions (unless an exception applies) and required minimum distributions from your IRA do not have to start until after you are age 70½.
If you treat the IRA as an inherited IRA, payments from the IRA will not be subject to the 10% additional income tax on early distributions. However, if the participant had started taking required minimum distributions, you will have to receive required minimum distributions from the inherited IRA. If the participant had not started taking required minimum distributions from the Plan, you will not have to start receiving required minimum distributions from the inherited IRA until the year the participant would have been age 70½.
If you are a surviving beneficiary other than a spouse. If you receive a payment from the Plan because of the participant's death and you are a designated beneficiary other than a surviving spouse, the only rollover option you have is to do a direct rollover to an inherited IRA. Payments from the
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inherited IRA will not be subject to the 10% additional income tax on early distributions. You will have to receive required minimum distributions from the inherited IRA.
Payments under a qualified domestic relations order. If you are the spouse or former spouse of the participant who receives a payment from the Plan under a qualified domestic relations order (QDRO), you generally have the same options the participant would have (for example, you may roll over the payment to your own IRA or an eligible employer plan that will accept it). Payments under the QDRO will not be subject to the 10% additional income tax on early distributions.
If you are a nonresident alien
If you are a nonresident alien and you do not do a direct rollover to a U.S. IRA or U.S. employer plan, instead of withholding 20%, the Plan is generally required to withhold 30% of the payment for federal income taxes. If the amount withheld exceeds the amount of tax you owe (as may happen if you do a
Other special rules
If a payment is one in a series of payments for less than 10 years, your choice whether to make a direct rollover will apply to all later payments in the series (unless you make a different choice for later payments).
If your payments for the year are less than $200 (not including payments from a designated Roth account in the Plan), the Plan, may, but is not required to, allow you to do a direct rollover and is not required to withhold for federal income taxes. However, you may do a
Unless you elect otherwise, a mandatory cashout of more than $1,000 (not including payments from a designated Roth account in the Plan) will be directly rolled over to an IRA chosen by the Plan administrator or the payor. A mandatory cashout is a payment from a plan to a participant made before age 62 (or normal retirement age, if later) and without consent, where the participant's benefit does not exceed $5,000. Unless your Plan otherwise provides, this $5,000 threshold does not include any amounts held under the plan as a result of a prior rollover made to the plan; consult your summary plan description and any materials provided to you in connection with a cashout payment.
You may have special rollover rights if you recently served in the U.S. Armed Forces. For more information, see IRS Publication 3, Armed Forces' Tax Guide.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
You may wish to consult with the Plan administrator or payor, or a professional tax advisor, before taking a payment from the Plan. Also, you can find more detailed information on the federal tax treatment of payments from employer plans in: IRS Publication 575, Pension and Annuity Income; IRS Publication 590, Individual Retirement Arrangements (IRAs); and IRS Publication 571,
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT FAILURE TO DEFER RECEIPT OF DISTRIBUTIONS FROM TAX QUALIFIED RETIREMENT PLANS (e. g. 401(k) Plans, Profit Sharing Plans, Money Purchase Plans and Section 403(b) Plans)
Generally, you cannot be forced to take a distribution from a plan until you reach the later of age 62 or the plan’s normal retirement age if your account balance is greater than $5,000. Please review the sections of your summary plan description addressing distribution of plan benefits for further information on the latest date to which you can defer a distribution under your plan and other information that might affect your decision whether or not to defer receiving your distribution. Distributions of previously untaxed amounts (which includes
If you defer receipt of your distribution, you will continue to have available to you for investment of your account balance the investment alternatives that the plan makes available to actively employed plan participants. Please log on to the plan’s Web site or call the
Please contact your plan administrator if you have questions about the forms of distribution available to you. Please contact your tax advisor if you have questions about their tax effects as applicable to your particular situation. Please review the prospectuses and other information provided on the Web site and/ or
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SPECIAL TAX NOTICE
Roth
PLEASE READ THIS NOTICE ONLY IF YOU ARE RECEIVING A DISTRIBUTION FROM YOUR DESIGNATED ROTH ACCOUNT. THIS NOTICE DOES NOT APPLY TO YOUR PLAN ACCOUNTS OTHER THAN A DESIGNATED ROTH ACCOUNT (FOR EXAMPLE, YOUR
For Payments From a Designated Roth Account
YOUR ROLLOVER OPTIONS
You are receiving this notice because all or a portion of a payment you are receiving from a
This notice describes the rollover rules that apply to payments from the Plan that are from a designated Roth account. If you also receive a payment from the Plan that is not from a designated Roth account, you will be provided a different notice for that payment, and the Plan administrator or the payor will tell you the amount that is being paid from each account.
Rules that apply to most payments from a designated Roth account are described in the “General Information About Rollovers” section. Special rules that only apply in certain circumstances are described in the “Special Rules and Options” section.
GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT ROLLOVERS
How can a rollover affect my taxes?
If the payment from the Plan is not a qualified distribution and you do not do a rollover to a Roth IRA or a designated Roth account in an employer plan, you will be taxed on the earnings in the payment. If you are under age 59½, a 10% additional income tax on early distributions will also apply to the earnings (unless an exception applies). However, if you do a rollover, you will not have to pay taxes currently on the earnings and you will not have to pay taxes later on payments that are qualified distributions.
If the payment from the Plan is a qualified distribution, you will not be taxed on any part of the payment even if you do not do a rollover. If you do a rollover, you will not be taxed on the amount you roll over and any earnings on the amount you roll over will not be taxed if paid later in a qualified distribution.
A qualified distribution from a designated Roth account in the Plan is a payment made after you are age 59½ (or after your death or disability) and after you have had a designated Roth account in the Plan for at least 5 years. In applying the
Where may I roll over the payment?
You may roll over the payment to either a Roth IRA (a Roth individual retirement account or Roth individual retirement annuity) or a designated Roth account in an employer plan (a
•If you do a rollover to a Roth IRA, all of your Roth IRAs will be considered for purposes of determining whether you have satisfied the
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•If you do a rollover to a Roth IRA, you will not be required to take a distribution from the Roth IRA during your lifetime and you must keep track of the aggregate amount of the
•Eligible rollover distributions from a Roth IRA can only be rolled over to another Roth IRA.
How do I do a rollover?
There are two ways to do a rollover. You can either do a direct rollover or a
If you do a direct rollover, the Plan will make the payment directly to your Roth IRA or designated Roth account in an employer plan. You should contact the Roth IRA sponsor or the administrator of the employer plan for information on how to do a direct rollover.
If you do not do a direct rollover, you may still do a rollover by making a deposit within 60 days into a Roth IRA, whether the payment is a qualified or nonqualified distribution. In addition, you can do a rollover by making a deposit within 60 days into a designated Roth account in an employer plan if the payment is a nonqualified distribution and the rollover does not exceed the amount of the earnings in the payment. You cannot do a
If you do a direct rollover of only a portion of the amount paid from the Plan and a portion is paid to you, each of the payments will include an allocable portion of the earnings in your designated Roth account.
If you do not do a direct rollover and the payment is not a qualified distribution, the Plan is required to withhold 20% of the earnings for federal income taxes (up to the amount of cash and property received other than employer stock). This means that, in order to roll over the entire payment in a
How much may I roll over?
If you wish to do a rollover, you may roll over all or part of the amount eligible for rollover. Any payment from the Plan is eligible for rollover, except:
•Certain payments spread over a period of at least 10 years or over your life or life expectancy (or the lives or joint life expectancy of you and your beneficiary)
•Required minimum distributions after age 70½ (or after death)
•Hardship distributions
•ESOP dividends
•Corrective distributions of contributions that exceed tax law limitations
•Loans treated as deemed distributions (for example, loans in default due to missed payments before your employment ends)
•Cost of life insurance paid by the Plan
•Contributions made under special automatic enrollment rules that are withdrawn pursuant to your request within 90 days of enrollment
•Amounts treated as distributed because of a prohibited allocation of S corporation stock under an ESOP (also, there will generally be adverse tax consequences if S corporation stock is held by an IRA).
The Plan administrator or the payor can tell you what portion of a payment is eligible for rollover.
If I don't do a rollover, will I have to pay the 10% additional income tax on early distributions?
If a payment is not a qualified distribution and you are under age 59½, you will have to pay the 10% additional income tax on early distributions with respect to the earnings allocated to the payment that you do not roll over (including amounts withheld for income tax), unless one of the exceptions listed below applies. This tax is in addition to the regular income tax on the earnings not rolled over.
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The 10% additional income tax does not apply to the following payments from the Plan:
•Payments made after you separate from service if you will be at least age 55 in the year of the separation
•Payments that start after you separate from service if paid at least annually in equal or close to equal amounts over your life or life expectancy (or the lives or joint life expectancy of you and your beneficiary)
•Payments made due to disability
•Payments after your death
•Payments of ESOP dividends
•Corrective distributions of contributions that exceed tax law limitations
•Cost of life insurance paid by the Plan
•Contributions made under special automatic enrollment rules that are withdrawn pursuant to your request within 90 days of enrollment
•Payments made directly to the government to satisfy a federal tax levy
•Payments made under a qualified domestic relations order (QDRO)
•Payments up to the amount of your deductible medical expenses
•Certain payments made while you are on active duty if you were a member of a reserve component called to duty after September 11, 2001 for more than 179 days
If I do a rollover to a Roth IRA, will the 10% additional income tax apply to early distributions from the IRA?
If you receive a payment from a Roth IRA when you are under age 59½, you will have to pay the 10% additional income tax on early distributions on the earnings paid from the Roth IRA, unless an exception applies or the payment is a qualified distribution. In general, the exceptions to the 10% additional income tax for early distributions from a Roth IRA listed above are the same as the exceptions for early distributions from a plan. However, there are a few differences for payments from a Roth IRA, including:
•There is no special exception for payments after separation from service.
•The exception for qualified domestic relations orders (QDROs) does not apply (although a special rule applies under which, as part of a divorce or separation agreement, a
•The exception for payments made at least annually in equal or close to equal amounts over a specified period applies without regard to whether you have had a separation from service.
•There are additional exceptions for (1) payments for qualified higher education expenses, (2) payments up to $10,000 used in a qualified
Will I owe State income taxes?
This notice does not describe any State or local income tax rules (including withholding rules).
SPECIAL RULES AND OPTIONS
If you miss the
Generally, the
If your payment includes employer stock that you do not roll over
If you receive a payment that is not a qualified distribution and you do not roll it over, you can apply a special rule to payments of employer stock (or other employer securities) that are paid in a lump sum after separation from service (or after age 59½, disability, or the participant's death). Under the special rule, the
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net unrealized appreciation on the stock included in the earnings in the payment will not be taxed when distributed to you from the Plan and will be taxed at capital gain rates when you sell the stock. If you do a rollover to a Roth IRA for a nonqualified distribution that includes employer stock (for example, by selling the stock and rolling over the proceeds within 60 days of the distribution), you will not have any taxable income and the special rule relating to the distributed employer stock will not apply to any subsequent payments from the Roth IRA or employer plan. Net unrealized appreciation is generally the increase in the value of the employer stock after it was acquired by the Plan. The Plan administrator can tell you the amount of any net unrealized appreciation.
If you receive a payment that is a qualified distribution that includes employer stock and you do not roll it over, your basis in the stock (used to determine gain or loss when you later sell the stock) will equal the fair market value of the stock at the time of the payment from the Plan.
If you have an outstanding loan that is being offset
If you have an outstanding loan from the Plan, your Plan benefit may be offset by the amount of the loan, typically when your employment ends. The loan offset amount is treated as a distribution to you at the time of the offset and, if the distribution is a nonqualified distribution, the earnings in the loan offset will be taxed (including the 10% additional income tax on early distributions, unless an exception applies) unless you do a
If you receive a nonqualified distribution and you were born on or before January 1, 1936
If you were born on or before January 1, 1936, and receive a lump sum distribution that is not a qualified distribution and that you do not roll over, special rules for calculating the amount of the tax on the earnings in the payment might apply to you. For more information, see IRS Publication 575, Pension and Annuity Income.
If you receive a nonqualified distribution, are an eligible retired public safety officer, and your pension payment is used to pay for health coverage or qualified
If the Plan is a governmental plan, you retired as a public safety officer, and your retirement was by reason of disability or was after normal retirement age, you can exclude from your taxable income nonqualified distributions paid directly as premiums to an accident or health plan (or a qualified
If you are not a plan participant
Payments after death of the participant. If you receive a distribution after the participant's death that you do not roll over, the distribution will generally be taxed in the same manner described elsewhere in this notice. However, whether the payment is a qualified distribution generally depends on when the participant first made a contribution to the designated Roth account in the Plan. Also, the 10% additional income tax on early distributions and the special rules for public safety officers do not apply, and the special rule described under the section “If you receive a nonqualified distribution and you were born on or before January 1, 1936” applies only if the participant was born on or before January 1, 1936.
If you are a surviving spouse. If you receive a payment from the Plan as the surviving spouse of a deceased participant, you have the same rollover options that the participant would have had, as described elsewhere in this notice. In addition, if you choose to do a rollover to a Roth IRA, you may treat the Roth IRA as your own or as an inherited Roth IRA.
A Roth IRA you treat as your own is treated like any other Roth IRA of yours, so that you will not have to receive any required minimum distributions during your lifetime and earnings paid to you in a nonqualified distribution before you are age 59½ will be subject to the 10% additional income tax on early distributions (unless an exception applies).
If you treat the Roth IRA as an inherited Roth IRA, payments from the Roth IRA will not be subject to the 10% additional income tax on early distributions. An inherited Roth IRA is subject to required minimum distributions. If the participant had started taking required minimum distributions from the Plan, you will have to receive required minimum distributions from the inherited Roth IRA. If the participant had not started taking required minimum distributions, you will not have to start receiving required minimum distributions from the inherited Roth IRA until the year the participant would have been age 70½.
If you are a surviving beneficiary other than a spouse. If you receive a payment from the Plan because of the participant's death and you are a designated beneficiary other than a surviving spouse, the only rollover option you have is to do a direct rollover to an inherited Roth IRA. Payments from
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the inherited Roth IRA, even if made in a nonqualified distribution, will not be subject to the 10% additional income tax on early distributions. You will have to receive required minimum distributions from the inherited Roth IRA.
Payments under a qualified domestic relations order. If you are the spouse or a former spouse of the participant who receives a payment from the Plan under a qualified domestic relations order (QDRO), you generally have the same options the participant would have (for example, you may roll over the payment as described in this notice).
If you are a nonresident alien
If you are a nonresident alien and you do not do a direct rollover to a U.S. IRA or U.S. employer plan, instead of withholding 20%, the Plan is generally required to withhold 30% of the payment for federal income taxes. If the amount withheld exceeds the amount of tax you owe (as may happen if you do a
Other special rules
If a payment is one in a series of payments for less than 10 years, your choice whether to make a direct rollover will apply to all later payments in the series (unless you make a different choice for later payments).
If your payments for the year (only including payments from the designated Roth account in the Plan) are less than $200, the Plan, may, but is not required to, allow you to do a direct rollover and is not required to withhold for federal income taxes. However, you can do a
Unless you elect otherwise, a mandatory cashout from the designated Roth account in the Plan of more than $1,000 will be directly rolled over to a Roth IRA chosen by the Plan administrator or the payor. A mandatory cashout is a payment from a plan to a participant made before age 62 (or normal retirement age, if later) and without consent, where the participant's benefit does not exceed $5,000. Unless your Plan otherwise provides, this $5,000 threshold does not include any amounts held under the plan as a result of a prior rollover made to the plan; consult your summary plan description and any materials provided to you in connection with a cashout payment.
You may have special rollover rights if you recently served in the U.S. Armed Forces. For more information, see IRS Publication 3, Armed Forces' Tax Guide.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
You may wish to consult with the Plan administrator or payor, or a professional tax advisor, before taking a payment from the Plan. Also, you can find more detailed information on the federal tax treatment of payments from employer plans in: IRS Publication 575, Pension and Annuity Income; IRS Publication 590, Individual Retirement Arrangements (IRAs); and IRS Publication 571,
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