thepensionmaven Posted September 24, 2018 Posted September 24, 2018 We have a participant who terminated employment with an outstanding loan. He is requesting a partial direct rollover of his account balance excluding the loan; wants to take the balance of his account as a taxable distribution. Obviously he will receive a 1099R, code L for the loan offset with $0 withholding. Somewhere I recall that the 20% withholding would be calculated on the total account balance excluding the loan - the total being the amount rolled over plus the amount not rolled over. Does that sound right??
C. B. Zeller Posted September 24, 2018 Posted September 24, 2018 There is a new code M for 2018 used to report loan offsets due to termination of employment. The withholding is 20% of (cash distribution + loan offset) and it is taken entirely from the cash distribution, since it can't be taken from the loan offset. There is no withholding on the amount rolled over. Free advice is worth what you paid for it. Do not rely on the information provided in this post for any purpose, including (but not limited to): tax planning, compliance with ERISA or the IRC, investing or other forms of fortune-telling, bird identification, relationship advice, or spiritual guidance. Corey B. Zeller, MSEA, CPC, QPA, QKA Preferred Pension Planning Corp.corey@pppc.co
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