The non-professional can deduct up to $ 25K in real estate loss
against ordinary income so long as their adjusted gross income is under $ 100K.
Not exact matches
If you have more losses than gains, the IRS says you can take another $ 3,000
against ordinary income, like salaries and pensions and
so forth.
And to the extent you can combine rebalancing with any tax - related moves, such as selling off shares of poor performers to generate realized capital losses that can be applied
against realized capital gains or even
ordinary income,
so much the better.
Second, in your example it just
so happens that the amount of the capital loss on one lot is exactly the maximum amount that can be deducted
against ordinary income.
They know that you can't write off the entire $ 10,000 in short - term losses
against your
ordinary income,
so they have to conjure up «other realized gains» of $ 7,000 out of nowhere.