Not exact matches
«Many people who made
lots of money
on cryptocurrencies in 2017 likely don't have the cash
on hand to cover their
capital gains taxes, so they may need to sell additional cryptocurrency holdings in order to raise the cash to pay the IRS.
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tax lot - matching methods on the fly to optimize your capital gains and loss
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on the fly to optimize your
capital gains and losses.
Using
Tax Lots to Your Advantage Your choice of cost basis method can have a significant effect
on the computation of
capital gains and losses when you sell shares.
What is even more unsettling, many people who made a
lot of revenue trading crypto's may not have the cash
on hand in order to pay their
capital gains taxes, so selling may not be over.
It all depends
on your existing
capital gain / loss, how a
lot ID sale changes that
capital gain / loss, the potential for future
capital gain / loss
on remaining unsold shares, and your
tax rate.
Being a Canadian myself, this has taught me a
lot of insight
on capital gains tax.
Long term
capital gains are
taxed at 15 % in the US, so if you buy and hold
on to good companies that reinvest their earnings, then the share price keeps going up and you'll save a
lot of money that would go in
taxes.
Which accounting method you choose will depend
on your
capital gains tax (which we covered in part 1) and how many
tax lots you have of a particular stock.
Alex A: You know, I think there are a
lot of really good aspects to homeownership and the government lobby towards home ownership, whether it's CHMC basically subsidizing the interest rates that an individual homebuyer can get or being able to borrow from your RRSP or getting a rebate
on your land transfer
tax or avoiding
capital gains tax on your principle residents.