The Internal Revenue Service late Friday waived the 50% penalty on missed 2021 and 2022 required minimum distributions for inherited retirement accounts within the 10-year payout rule.
With Notice 2022-53, the IRS "answered the No. 1 question" that advisors and retirement industry officials have been asking about the proposed Secure Act required minimum distribution [regulations] issued in February, according to Ed Slott of Ed Slott and Co.
The confusion "surrounded those beneficiaries who inherited in 2020 or later and were subject to the 10-year rule, where the entire inherited IRA balance would have to be withdrawn by the end of the 10th year after death," Slott explained in an email to ThinkAdvisor late Friday.