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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: onepoorguy ⎊✺🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: taxes, distributions, and ACA
Date: 03/08/25 9:19 PM
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I'm doing my taxes. I was doing fine until I had to enter the ACA payments. Apparently, the realized distributions from mom's stuff that I inherited pushed us up high enough that most of the subsidies were clawed-back. Which makes sense. There was a short lag between the stepped-up basis, and my liquidating. So that was "gains". Plus the distributions I realized. And I'll have to realize more next year. Though it looks like I won't have to worry about IRMAA, so I can take somewhat smaller distributions and hopefully not nuke our ACA benefits.

Tricky to manage. Take too little, and when SS comes around we'll be in a higher bracket than we would normally be because of RMDs. Take too much, and the ACA credits get whacked.

This definitely is a first-world problem. Better than not being able to afford medical insurance, or to retire at all.
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