In an editorial in the same journal, researchers describe how opioid painkillers like Vicodin and Percocet have become increasingly common without good evidence that they help patients in the long run.
One of the main reasons that people choose to recharacterize a Roth IRA back into a Traditional IRA is because their investments have suffered serious losses since their conversion. For example, if you have a Traditional IRA with a balance of $100,000 that you converted into a Roth IRA, you owe taxes on that conversion.here are several reasons that you may want or need to recharacterize an IRA contribution. Your contribution may benefit from a recharacterization if the value of your investments has declined since the time you made the conversation from Traditional IRA to a Roth.
1 Recharacterization: You can recharacterizeâor reverseâa contribution or conversion any time up to the income-tax-filing deadline, plus extension, for the tax year of the conversion. 2  For example, if you converted in the 2014 tax year, you can recharacterize as late as October 15, 2015. Recharacterization: You can recharacterizeâor reverseâa contribution or conversion any time up to the income-tax-filing deadline, plus extension, for the tax year of the conversion. 2  For example, if you converted in the 2014 tax year, you can recharacterize as late as October 15, 2015.