How to Use capital gain in a Sentence

capital gain

noun

• Avoid holding funds that spin out hefty capital gains in this account, though.
  — Darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 20 Nov. 2024
• That allows them to be taxed at a low capital gains rate rather than a much higher income tax rate.
  — John Fauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Nov. 2017
• One of the purposes of the estate tax, then, was to ensure that the government gets a piece of these untaxed capital gains.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 2 Nov. 2017
• No capital gains taxes would be owed on the appreciation that took place during his lifetime.
  — Syndicated Columns, OregonLive.com, 29 Oct. 2017
• If your investments took a dive this year, selling off some losing investments can offset capital gains and lower your tax bill.
  — Mike Zaino, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
• Bush cut taxes across the board, lowered rates on dividends and capital gains, and changed the estate tax to benefit high earners.
  — Sam Petulla, CNN, 15 Dec. 2017
• Seasoned mutual fund investors may prefer a proactive approach to avoid capital gains taxes.
  — Anna-Louise Jackson, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2017
• Seasoned mutual-fund investors may prefer a proactive approach to avoid capital gains taxes.
  — Anna-Louise Jackson, The Seattle Times, 9 Dec. 2017
• And conservatives could cheer an end to the unfair double taxation of dividends and capital gains.
  — Eli Lehrer, National Review, 1 Nov. 2017
• Voters are also deciding whether to repeal Washington's tax on capital gains.
  — Melissa Santos, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
• The party failed to win support for a wealth tax, but was able to increase the capital gains tax to 22 percent from 20 percent as part of the government talks.
  — Bloomberg.com, 1 Dec. 2017
• Investors can also control their taxable income—and thus lower capital gains tax bills—by selling losing stocks or waiting to sell winning stocks until 2018.
  — Bloomberg, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2017
• 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
• The top rate for long-term capital gains was left untouched at 20%.
  — Claire Zillman, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2018
• 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
• The top rate for long-term capital gains was left untouched at 20 percent.
  — Bloomberg.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• 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

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024