Excess Contribution
Gold IRA Glossary
An IRA contribution above your annual limit, which triggers a 6% excise tax for each year the extra money stays in the account. The fix is withdrawing the excess and its earnings before the tax filing deadline. Rollovers and trustee-to-trustee transfers are not contributions, so funding a Gold IRA that way cannot create an excess.
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