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  2. How to deduct stock losses from your taxes - AOL

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    Investing and taxes go hand-in-hand. When you sell a stock for a profit inside a taxable brokerage account, you’ll owe taxes on the realized gain.. But the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) offers ...

  3. Capital gains tax in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In January, a new tax year begins; if stock prices increase, analysts may attribute the increase to an absence of such end-of-year selling and say there is a January effect. A Santa Claus rally is an increase in stock prices at the end of the year, perhaps in anticipation of a January effect.

  4. Wash sale - Wikipedia

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    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". This allows investors to lower their tax amount with the use of investment losses. [5]

  5. Qualified dividend - Wikipedia

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    To be taxed at the qualified dividend rate, the dividend must: be paid after December 31, 2002; be paid by a U.S. corporation, by a corporation incorporated in a U.S. possession, by a foreign corporation located in a country that is eligible for benefits under a U.S. tax treaty that meets certain criteria, or on a foreign corporation’s stock that can be readily traded on an established U.S ...

  6. How to write off worthless stock and get a tax break - AOL

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    The process is called tax-loss harvesting, and you can use capital losses on investments such as stocks and exchange-traded funds to offset capital gains taxes. Plus, you can offset up to $3,000 ...

  7. Capital gains tax on real estate and selling your home - AOL

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    You can sell your primary residence and avoid paying capital gains taxes on the first $250,000 of your profits if your tax-filing status is single, and up to $500,000 if married and filing jointly.

  8. Dividend stripping - Wikipedia

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    Dividend stripping is the practice of buying shares a short period before a dividend is declared, called cum-dividend, and then selling them when they go ex-dividend, when the previous owner is entitled to the dividend. On the day the company trades ex-dividend, theoretically the share price drops by the amount of the dividend.

  9. Like-kind exchange - Wikipedia

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    A like-kind exchange under United States tax law, also known as a 1031 exchange, is a transaction or series of transactions that allows for the disposal of an asset and the acquisition of another replacement asset without generating a current tax liability from the sale of the first asset. A like-kind exchange can involve the exchange of one ...