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  2. How do you calculate cost basis on investments? - AOL

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    Methods to calculate cost basis. The cost basis for stocks and mutual funds is generally the price you paid when you purchased the asset, plus any other trading costs. However, there are several ...

  3. What Is Cost Basis and How Is It Calculated? - AOL

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    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 ...

  4. Your Taxes: Cost-Basis Basics - AOL

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    For stocks or bonds, the cost basis is To figure out whether you need to report a gain -- or can claim a loss -- after you sell, you must start with the cost basis for that investment. Your Taxes ...

  5. Cost basis - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Tax basis - Wikipedia

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    Adjusted tax basis is used in determining gain or loss from disposition of the asset. Tax basis may be relevant in other tax computations. [1] Tax basis of a member's interest in a partnership and other flow-through entity is generally increased by the members share of income and reduced by the share of loss. The tax basis of property acquired ...

  7. Adjusted basis - Wikipedia

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    In tax accounting, adjusted basis is the net cost of an asset after adjusting for various tax-related items. [1] Adjusted Basis or Adjusted Tax Basis refers to the original cost or other basis of property, reduced by depreciation deductions and increased by capital expenditures. Example: Muhammad buys a lot for $100,000. He then erects a retail ...

  8. How to Find the Cost Basis of Old Stock

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    Buy low and sell high is one of the most fundamental rules of stock investing. Knowing the cost basis of the stocks you purchase can help you estimate your potential profit should you decide to sell.

  9. Historical cost - Wikipedia

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    At the end year 1 the asset is recorded in the balance sheet at cost of $100. No account is taken of the increase in value from $100 to $120 in year 1. In year 2 the company records a sale of $115. The cost of sales is $100, being the historical cost of the asset. This gives rise to a gain of $15 which is wholly recognized in year 2.