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Investors sometimes think they can work around the wash-sale rule through a variety of clever measures, but the IRS regularly disallows these maneuvers. Here are a few of the most popular. 1.
The sale of the relinquished property and the acquisition of the replacement property do not have to be simultaneous. A non-simultaneous exchange is sometimes called a Starker Tax Deferred Exchange, named for an investor who won a case against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). [3]
Wash sale rules don't apply when stock is sold at a profit. [4] A related term, tax-loss harvesting is "selling an investment at a loss with the intention of ultimately repurchasing the same investment after the IRS's 30 day window on wash sales has expired".
[1] [2] The effectiveness of this approach is dependant of the tax rules in a particular jurisdiction. In the United States CBS News describes tax loss harvesting specifically as "selling an investment at a loss with the intention of ultimately repurchasing the same investment after the IRS's 30 day window on wash sales has expired." This ...
As long as you meet some basic residency requirements and your home-sale profit is $250,000 or less ($500,000 for married-filing-jointly home sellers), it’s not taxable and you don’t have to ...
IRS Ticket Sale Rules for 2024 So what will the rules be for concert tickets sold in 2024? In a statement Nov. 21, 2023, the IRS said that it’s planning to implement a $5,000 reporting threshold ...
From 1998 through 2017, tax law keyed the tax rate for long-term capital gains to the taxpayer's tax bracket for ordinary income, and set forth a lower rate for the capital gains. (Short-term capital gains have been taxed at the same rate as ordinary income for this entire period.) [ 16 ] This approach was dropped by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ...
For the second year in a row, Uncle Sam delayed a new tax rule that will lower the income threshold for Form 1099-K, which is used to report third-party business payments to the IRS. Don’t miss