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Futures contracts and cost basis. Calculating the cost basis for futures contracts involves assessing the difference between a commodity’s local spot price and its associated futures price. For ...
Taxes on mutual funds can be complicated because you can be taxed on dividends and the fund’s gains even before you’ve sold your shares. Of course, you’ll also be taxed on any gain in the ...
The cost basis of an asset is important to you for two primary reasons – tax planning and investment planning. These two reasons are related because only with the proper investment planning can ...
One notable component of the expense ratio of U.S. funds is the "12b-1 fee", which represents expenses used for advertising and promotion of the fund. 12b-1 fees are paid by the fund out of mutual fund assets and are generally limited to a maximum of 1.00% per year (.75% distribution and .25% shareholder servicing) under FINRA Rules. [7]
Basis (or cost basis), as used in United States tax law, is the original cost of property, adjusted for factors such as depreciation. When a property is sold, the taxpayer pays/(saves) taxes on a capital gain /(loss) that equals the amount realized on the sale minus the sold property's basis.
An increase in the ACB will reduce the amount of capital gains realized at time of disposition. Mutual fund front end or deferred sales charges are treated like purchase and sale commissions for tax purposes. [2] For Selling Property: Capital improvements made to a property are added to the ACB of that property.
The best way to see if a mutual fund has competitive costs is to compare them to the ICI’s benchmark expense ratios mentioned earlier: 0.44% for equity mutual funds and 0.37% for bond mutual funds.
The tax basis of an asset subject to cost recovery must be reduced by deductions allowed for such cost recovery. [5] For example, if Joe claimed $25,000 of depreciation deductions on his building, his adjusted basis would be the $90,000 as above less $25,000, or $65,000.