How to Use capital gain in a Sentence
capital gain
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The top rate for long-term capital gains was left untouched at 20%.
— Claire Zillman, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2018 -
Will sellers push for stock sales to get long-term capital gain benefits?
— Lourdes De Los Santos, miamiherald, 17 Mar. 2018 -
In plain English, that means most heirs will save big on capital gains taxes on inherited shares of stocks.
— Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Apr. 2018 -
The proceeds from their sale received the beneficial capital gains rates.
— Lourdes De Los Santos, miamiherald, 17 Mar. 2018 -
The tax code already confers a lot of benefits upon capital gains income.
— Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Mar. 2018 -
One attendee asked Cuban about the unrealized capital gains tax.
— Stephanie Murray, The Arizona Republic, 20 Oct. 2024 -
To start, anyone trading Bitcoin who has held the cryptocurrency for more than a year gets hit with a capital gains tax.
— Andrew Zaleski, Curbed, 21 Mar. 2018 -
Wealth Taxes: An increase in capital gains tax on shares is expected rather than equalizing rates with income tax.
— Samuel Burke, Fortune Europe, 29 Oct. 2024 -
If stakeholders keep that investment for five to seven years, their capital gains tax liability will drop by 10 percent.
— Joshua Fechter, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Mar. 2018 -
The proposal would cap farmers’ deduction at 20% of net income, excluding capital gains.
— Richard Rubin, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2018 -
Conservatives have long wanted to give capital gains an additional break, by subtracting inflation from the taxable gain.
— Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Mar. 2018 -
The exit tax is on worldwide assets, and is levied to ensure those soon-to-be-ex-Americans have fulfilled all of their tax obligations, including on income and capital gains.
— Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2024 -
The well-off got cuts in the capital gains tax and the wealth tax.
— Cole Stangler, TIME, 8 July 2024 -
If an investor buys a share for $3 and sells it for $5, the capital gain is $2.
— Laura Saunders and Richard Rubin, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022 -
If the daughter sells it for that amount, no capital gain tax would be owed.
— Liz Weston, oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2020 -
Indeed, that has long been seen as a flaw in our capital gains tax law.
— Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023 -
Those sales will only be taxed as a long-term capital gain at a 20% tax rate.
— Chris Isidore, CNN, 16 Nov. 2021 -
The Senate left the short-term capital gains rate unchanged.
— Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2023 -
Proceeds from the deal could then be treated as a capital gain, the thinking goes.
— Sabrina Willmer, Fortune, 30 June 2021 -
That's going to five us a lot of capital gains revenue.
— Fox News, 24 Sep. 2018 -
These numbers are just to give you an idea of how capital gains taxes work.
— Liz Weston Of Nerdwallet, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2024 -
As with the sale of any art investment, that capital gain or loss would be taxed as a collectible.
— Kelli María Korducki, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2022 -
But then the bubble burst, leading to a sharp drop in capital gains tax revenue.
— Jeff Stein, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2023 -
But that was a huge drop in capital gains revenue from the previous year.
— George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2024 -
Big gains build up because the investor doesn’t want to sell and pay capital gains taxes.
— Liz Weston, latimes.com, 24 June 2018 -
Democrats, however, vowed to oppose the change to how capital gains are taxed.
— Fox News, 31 July 2018 -
The first seven years of profits are supposed to be taxed by the U.S. government at the capital gains rate of up to 23.8 percent.
— Jesse Drucker, New York Times, 28 May 2024 -
Currently, the top rate for long-term capital gains, or assets owned for more than one year, is 20%.
— Kate Dore, Cfp®, CNBC, 20 July 2024 -
That $3,000 capital gain would be subject to the short-term capital gains rate.
— CBS News, 26 Jan. 2022 -
For households worth more than $1 million, capital gains would be taxed at the same rate as their wage income.
— Courtney Subramanian, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023
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