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5. Well, I guess I'll have to wait and see. I would hate to have to commit to a certain
Wed Nov 9, 2022, 05:06 PM
Nov 2022

percent in advance. Usually I don't do any withholding for IRA RMDs at Fidelity or for any Roth conversions at Vanguard because I have already covered that in my estimated tax payments (or I'm relying on a safe-harbor provision like paying estimated taxes equal to 100% of the prior year's taxes or somesuch).

But a couple of times it has been convenient to do the withholding at the time of the RMD or conversion -- as any such tax withholding is treated as occurring equally over the entire tax year, even though I always do the RMD or conversion in December.

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