IRA transfer to survivor spouse

[titabobbie]

  I inherited my husband's IRA retirement upon his death.  I am liable for Federal taxes if I transfer this to   my  IIRA retirement?  

[GailL1]

Taxes are deferred until distribution - just make sure it is coded as a transfer or rollover - best to do it between institutions so that your hands aren’t involved at all.

How you set it up is up to you if you are the spouse - and when the death of the account holder happened - before 2020 or after 2020. (see the IRS link below)

If there is no need to fancy up the distributions due to one’s tax situation - you can just combine it into your own IRA and take the distributions when required or when needed from all of it, combined.

IRS.gov - Retirement Accounts - Beneficiary