How to Use capital gain in a Sentence

capital gain

noun

• 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

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024