Not exact matches
It could be a difference of an
ordinary income tax rate, which can be as
much as 39.6 percent, or a long - term capital gains rate, 15 percent for most people.
Until 2003, dividends were
taxed as
ordinary income — up to 38.6 % — and capital gains were
taxed at a
much lower 20 %.
We don't want to have too
much money in bonds in brokerage because the interests gets
taxed as
ordinary income.
«Workers benefit
much more from a cut in
taxes on
ordinary income.
Stock and bond ETNs work pretty
much the same as their ETF equivalents, with long - term gains
taxed at a maximum 23.8 % rate and short - term gains
taxed as
ordinary income at a rate up to 43.4 %.
The difference between the long - term capital gains rate, generally referred to as simply the capital gains rate, and the
ordinary income tax rate, which applies to short - term gains, can be almost as
much as 20 %.
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.
Tax laws pertaining to annuities recognize gain as ordinary income verses capital gains and this can result in a much higher tax load on any distribution of annuity procee
Tax laws pertaining to annuities recognize gain as
ordinary income verses capital gains and this can result in a
much higher
tax load on any distribution of annuity procee
tax load on any distribution of annuity proceeds.
Gains on annuities are
taxed as
ordinary income, meaning you could pay twice as
much in
taxes on it as you would from the capital gains on stocks or mutual fund investments.
And to the extent you invest for retirement in taxable account, you should consider including investments like index funds and ETFs and
tax - managed funds that generate
much of their return through unrealized capital gains that qualify for long - term capital gains rates, which are typically lower than the
ordinary income rates that apply to taxable withdrawals from
tax - deferred accounts.
The ability to exercise early allows you to change the gain on all your options from
ordinary income to a long - term capital gain, which is
taxed at a
much lower rate.
So
much lower that the amount of
ordinary income taxes paid on 100 % of withdraws at age 60 (AKA the withdrawal phase), is many of times more than the dividend and capital gains
taxes saved along the way (during the accumulation phase).
Taxes are not 0 %, so the level of taxable events (dividends, capital gains, and then ordinary income taxes on withdrawals) then becomes dependent on the average rate of return, combined with how the investment portfolio is set up (which determines basis, and how much dividends and capital gains you're real
Taxes are not 0 %, so the level of taxable events (dividends, capital gains, and then
ordinary income taxes on withdrawals) then becomes dependent on the average rate of return, combined with how the investment portfolio is set up (which determines basis, and how much dividends and capital gains you're real
taxes on withdrawals) then becomes dependent on the average rate of return, combined with how the investment portfolio is set up (which determines basis, and how
much dividends and capital gains you're realize).
But that is not valid nor needed anymore, because all three
tax rates (dividends, capital gains, and
ordinary income) are now
much lower.
But there are still the concerns about generating «too
much of a good thing» in the form of
tax losses that are limited by the $ 3,000 limit the IRS puts using short - term losses as offsets for
ordinary income.
In so doing, they allow the investor to pay
tax on that
income at a
much lower
tax bracket than would have been the case with
ordinary earned
income.