The cure for ileocecal valve syndrome? Eliminating certain foods for several weeks, such as raw fruits and vegetables (celery, carrots, cucumber, tomatoes), nuts, seeds, popcorn, spicy foods (salsa, cayenne pepper, hot peppers, chili powder) and stimulants (coffee, tea, caffeine, alcohol, chocolate).
Instead of a distributionof $10,000, letâs say the IRA ownertakes out a distribution of $25,000.This pushes the MAGI above$44,000, making $17,000 of SocialSecurity taxable.However, you can control howmuch tax you pay on Social Securityin many instances by controllingyour IRA distribution strategy.
First, the earnings count as taxable income. Second, a 10 percent additional tax penalty applies to the distributions. For example, if you take $1,000 of earnings from your Roth IRA and you fall in the 28 percent tax bracket, you'll pay $280 in income taxes and $100 in additional tax penalties.