Roth IRA conversion tax reporting. I am so confused!

Make that confused and frustrated. You'd think this would be simple.

I want to convert my entire traditional IRA into my Roth IRA before the end of this year. The question is not whether that makes financial sense. I want to do it because I don't want to be forced into required minimum distributions. That's my only reason.

What I'm trying to figure out is what form or forms is or are required to pay the taxes on the thing by the deadline for paying estimated taxes.

The company that holds my IRA was of no help, as the form they referred me to said it only applied if you were converting part of it. They told me to consult a financial professional. I see no reason to pay for that when all I need to know is what the heck form do I fill out to report the conversion and pay the taxes.

Googling was no help either. It kept wanting to tell me about a backdoor conversion, which does not apply to me. It was no good at just telling me what form to fill out either.

In hindsight, I should have increased my withholding on one of my sources of retirement income at the beginning of this year and then I wouldn't have had to worry about it. Hindsight is 20/20.

Come to think of it, I'm not sure I even need to report the conversion until I do my 2024 taxes. All I really need right now, I think, is just to send in the estimated taxes on the thing.

Help?

Dupe, sorry.

Can't seem to just delete it.

Dan Rather's wife has passed.

Obituary:

https://steady.substack.com/p/jean-grace-rather

Why a second Death Star won't be that bad.

Well I was going to stay in until it was called or I keeled over involuntarily

But watching the cameras focused on his podium the last straw.

I took some more blood pressure medicine, not any more than I am allowed, fortunately, and a couple of antihistamines which fortunately function pretty well as sleeping pills for me, although I don't know about tonight, we'll see: and I'm going to do my best to sleep. If I have a nightmare, it can't be any worse.

If he actually wins this, and I'm not saying that I'm giving up,

I blame the two M's. The mainstream media with its sanewashing, which CNN is doing right now, and misogyny.

No, I am not giving up.

But if we get beat I think it will be on straight up misogyny. Straight up aggressive misogyny.

No doubt everybody has already had it with the Green Party,

But just to add to it.......

https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/the-greens-want-to-harm-their-enemies

“We are not in a position to win the white house,” Green Party surrogate Kshama Sawant declared on Monday, “but we do have a real opportunity to win something historic. We could deny Kamala Harris the state of Michigan. [The crowd cheers.] And the polls show that most likely Harris cannot win the election without Michigan.”

Trump is starting to sound like Tommy Smothers.

(I mean Tommy Smothers in character, of course.)

This was prompted by listening to his mouthings about the Biden Administration stealing FEMA funds to pay immigrants to vote for them.

Hey Donnie, you don't sell people down the tubes.

You sell them down the river.

Yeah, I know he doesn't know the difference and that this doesn't really matter, but it just struck me as a fitting capper for this, well hell, I don't know what to call it.