How to Use capital gain in a Sentence

capital gain

noun
  • And that tax revenue is volatile and unreliable because it's tied largely to capital gains.
    George Skelton, latimes.com, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Tax law requires that every sale of cryptocurrency be recorded as a capital gain or loss and, of course, most bitcoin sellers fail to do so.
    Bill Harris, Recode, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Create a new tax on unrealized capital gains for people with a net worth of $100 million or more.
    Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Oct. 2024
  • For all their differences, the expats share an important bond with their Brazilian hosts: the common language of capital gains and wine lists.
    Chris Feliciano Arnold, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 May 2018
  • Investors who put their money into the zones and don’t cash out their investment for 10 years would avoid paying capital gains tax on any increase in value.
    Ian Duncan, baltimoresun.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Under the old tax regime, hedge funds and private equity managers had to hold their investments for one year to get the long-term capital gains rate of 20 percent.
    Lynnley Browning, Bloomberg.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • By trimming falling positions, investors can harvest losses and use them to offset taxable capital gains elsewhere.
    Darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The trusts generally need to pay taxes on any income or gains, but if there are stakes for private businesses, capital gains taxes aren't owed until the business is sold.
    Ben Steverman, latimes.com, 16 May 2018
  • Income tax rates are already higher than capital gains rates and will likely move even higher after 2025 when Trump’s tax cuts expire.
    Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2024
  • But there’s no question that the state is benefiting from a booming economy and capital gains resulting from last year’s strong stock market performance, Garosi said.
    Kathleen Pender, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • If, further down the road, the buyer decided to sell the NFT, they would be required to report the sale as a capital gain or loss.
    Kelli María Korducki, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Revenue from a sales tax fluctuates far less than the tax on capital gains.
    sacbee, 9 July 2018

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