Submitted By: Diana
Answered: June 1, 2015 3:09 pm

My husband has four IRAs; I have one. We both turn 70-1/2 this year. Can we lump all of our IRAs together to figure required minimum distributions?

Your husband can total all of his IRAs and then take his annual distributions from any one or more of the accounts; you must figure your RMD separately and take it solely from your IRA.

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Disaster losses

Casualty losses such as from a storm, in areas declared by the President to warrant federal assistance. An election may be made to deduct the loss in the year before the loss or the year of the loss.

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