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IRA Conversions and the Five-Year Waiting Period

Last update on: May 28 2020

I continue to receive a lot of questions about the five-year waiting period for taking distributions after Roth IRA contributions and conversions. There’s a lot of confusion about the rules. It is slightly different for conversions and for contributions. It also is different for income taxation of distributions and the 10% early distribution penalty on distributions. Here’s how I described the rules in the May 2010 issue of Retirement Watch.

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