JohnH Posted July 28, 2008 Report Posted July 28, 2008 I'm wondering if anyone has seen this sort of correspondence from an IRA custodian. The client has an IRA which sends a Form 1065 K-1 to the trustee. The trustee then sends the K-1 to the client with a letter saying that UBTI has been reported on the K-1 and that if UBTI exceeds $1,000 the TAXPAYER must obtain a Fed ID# and prepare a 990-T. The 990-T is then to be sent to the trustee, who will pay the tax from the IRA and charge the taxpayer a processing fee for their trouble. I thought most trustees handled this filing, rather than tossing it back to the customer. Before I tell this client to either find a sensible IRA trustee or else find another preparer interested in fooling with this nonsense, I'd like to ask if anyone on this forum has encountered a similar situation or is it becoming more common and I need to get up to speed on it. Quote
jainen Posted July 28, 2008 Report Posted July 28, 2008 >>tell this client to either find a sensible IRA trustee or else find another preparer interested in fooling with this nonsense<< I recommend the second choice. He should find a tax advisor who can alert him to this common problem before he invests this way. Quote
JohnH Posted July 28, 2008 Author Report Posted July 28, 2008 Interesting that you should mention that. I had a conversation with him a couple of years back about discussing these things beforehand (after he got burned on another investment). He replied that he trusts his financial advisor to give him good investment advice and he trusts me to handle his tax matters, and he didn't really see any reason to mix the two. I considered telling him to go somewhere else at the time, and your reply reinforces the wisdom of that initial impulse. I think we will have that conversation this week. It occurs to me that you & he might get along well together - would you be interested in my giving him your contact info? Quote
zeke Posted July 28, 2008 Report Posted July 28, 2008 >>I recommend the second choice. He should find a tax advisor who can alert him to this common problem before he invests this way. << OUCH !!! >>It occurs to me that you & he might get along well together - would you be interested in my giving him your contact info? << TOUCHE ! ! ! Quote
JohnH Posted July 28, 2008 Author Report Posted July 28, 2008 You gotta have a thick skin if you walk onto this part of the playground. Quote
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