Saving for retirement can take your entire career, but when it comes time to retire, you want to make sure your savings work as hard as they can for you. With tax-favored accounts like IRAs, 401(k)s, ...

Retirement is a journey, and managing its financial aspects shouldn't be a maze. Enter Form 1099-R, a key document that often puzzles many at tax time. This guide is not just about decoding a tax form ...

Making a certain amount of cash from pursuing a passion or by having your own side gig means you owe taxes, according to the Internal Revenue Service, but you won’t receive a W-2 form as you would ...

IRS Form 1099-R is issued to you when you take a distribution from your IRA, profit-sharing plans, insurance contracts, pension plan or annuity. If you didn't pay any taxes when you withdrew the money ...

Millions of individuals took withdrawals from their IRAs, 401(k)s, pensions and other types of retirement accounts in 2014. When you do this, you need to know how to report these distributions on your ...

The IRS requires companies to report non-employee compensation and other payments made to individuals or businesses during the year. Payers must fill out a 1099 form and then send one copy to the IRS ...

Tax season is here, and with Tax Day set for April 18, 2023, you might be starting to gather paperwork. By law, 1099 forms for independent contractors need to be mailed or distributed electronically ...

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 ...

2020 was an eventful year when it came to IRA required minimum distributions (RMDs), especially for those who took their RMDs before the March 2020 suspension was enacted. Then came rollover relief.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter J Reilly is a Forbes contributor who covers taxes. Jeffrey J Furnish just became my hero. I have been complaining for some ...