Your Account NumberYour Name
IRA Distribution Request for Withdrawal, Rollover or
Return of Excess Contribution (Self-Directed Investing)
Form W-4R (2024)
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General Instructions (continued)
Nonperiodic payments—10% withholding. Your payer must
withhold at a default 10% rate from the taxable amount of
nonperiodic payments unless you enter a different rate on line 2.
Distributions from an IRA that are payable on demand are treated as
nonperiodic payments. Note that the default rate of withholding may
not be appropriate for your tax situation. You may choose to have no
federal income tax withheld by entering “-0-” on line 2. See the
specific instructions below for more information. Generally, you are
not permitted to elect to have federal income tax withheld at a rate
of less than 10% (including “-0-”) on any payments to be delivered
outside the United States and its territories.
Note: If you don’t give Form W-4R to your payer, you don’t provide
an SSN, or the IRS notifies the payer that you gave an incorrect SSN,
then the payer must withhold 10% of the payment for federal
income tax and can’t honor requests to have a lower (or no) amount
withheld. Generally, for payments that began before 2024, your
current withholding election (or your default rate) remains in effect
unless you submit a Form W-4R.
Eligible rollover distributions—20% withholding. Distributions you
receive from qualified retirement plans (for example, 401(k) plans
and section 457(b) plans maintained by a governmental employer)
or tax-sheltered annuities that are eligible to be rolled over to an IRA
or qualified plan are subject to a 20% default rate of withholding on
the taxable amount of the distribution. You can’t choose withholding
at a rate of less than 20% (including “-0-”). Note that the default
rate of withholding may be too low for your tax situation. You may
choose to enter a rate higher than 20% on line 2. Don’t give Form
W-4R to your payer unless you want more than 20% withheld.
Note that the following payments are not eligible rollover
distributions for purposes of these withholding rules:
• Qualifying “hardship” distributions;
• Distributions required by federal law, such as required minimum
distributions;
• Generally, distributions from a pension-linked emergency savings
account;
• Eligible distributions to a domestic abuse victim;
• Qualified disaster recovery distributions;
• Qualified birth or adoption distributions; and
• Emergency personal expense distributions.
See Pub. 505 for details. See also Nonperiodic payments—10%
withholding above.
Payments to nonresident aliens and foreign estates. Do not use
Form W-4R. See Pub. 515, Withholding of Tax on Nonresident Aliens
and Foreign Entities, and Pub. 519, U.S. Tax Guide for Aliens, for
more information.
Tax relief for victims of terrorist attacks. If your disability payments
for injuries incurred as a direct result of a terrorist attack are not
taxable, enter “-0-” on line 2. See Pub. 3920, Tax Relief for Victims
of Terrorist Attacks, for more details.
Specific Instructions
Line 1b
For an estate, enter the estate’s employer identification number
(EIN) in the area reserved for “Social security number.”
Line 2
More withholding. If you want more than the default rate withheld
from your payment, you may enter a higher rate on line 2.
Less withholding (nonperiodic payments only). If permitted, you
may enter a lower rate on line 2 (including “-0-”) if you want less
than the 10% default rate withheld from your payment. If you have
already paid, or plan to pay, your tax on this payment through other
withholding or estimated tax payments, you may want to enter “-0-”.
Suggestion for determining withholding. Consider using the
Marginal Rate Tables on page 1 to help you select the appropriate
withholding rate for this payment or distribution. The tables are most
accurate if the appropriate amount of tax on all other sources of
income, deductions, and credits has been paid through other
withholding or estimated tax payments. If the appropriate amount of
tax on those sources of income has not been paid through other
withholding or estimated tax payments, you can pay that tax through
withholding on this payment by entering a rate that is greater than
the rate in the Marginal Rate Tables.
The marginal tax rate is the rate of tax on each additional dollar of
income you receive above a particular amount of income. You can
use the table for your filing status as a guide to find a rate of
withholding for amounts above the total income level in the table.
To determine the appropriate rate of withholding from the table,
do the following. Step 1: Find the rate that corresponds with your
total income not including the payment. Step 2: Add your total
income and the taxable amount of the payment and find the
corresponding rate.
If these two rates are the same, enter that rate on line 2. (See
Example 1 below.)
If the two rates differ, multiply (a) the amount in the lower rate
bracket by the rate for that bracket, and (b) the amount in the higher
rate bracket by the rate for that bracket. Add these two numbers;
this is the expected tax for this payment. To get the rate to have
withheld, divide this amount by the taxable amount of the payment.
Round up to the next whole number and enter that rate on line 2.
(See Example 2 below.)
If you prefer a simpler approach (but one that may lead to
overwithholding), find the rate that corresponds to your total income
including the payment and enter that rate on line 2.
Examples. Assume the following facts for Examples 1 and 2. Your
filing status is single. You expect the taxable amount of your
payment to be $20,000. Appropriate amounts have been withheld
for all other sources of income and any deductions or credits.
Example 1. You expect your total income to be $62,000 without
the payment. Step 1: Because your total income without the
payment, $62,000, is greater than $61,750 but less than $115,125,
the corresponding rate is 22%. Step 2: Because your total income
with the payment, $82,000, is greater than $61,750 but less than
$115,125, the corresponding rate is 22%. Because these two rates
are the same, enter “22” on line 2.
Example 2. You expect your total income to be $43,700 without
the payment. Step 1: Because your total income without the
payment, $43,700, is greater than $26,200 but less than $61,750,
the corresponding rate is 12%. Step 2: Because your total income
with the payment, $63,700, is