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- From: 6500amd@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Amitav Das)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: capital loss/gain and tax laws..
- Keywords: wash sale, loss/gain
- Message-ID: <6803@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 00:02:16 GMT
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- I am a new investor and trying to find out about the tax
- laws related capital loss/gain. Here are my questions:
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- 1. How do you compute capital loss/gain if you have done
- transactions (buy&sell same item) of a) stocks, b)
- Mutual Funds? Please give examples.
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- 2. What is the last date that you can sell to show it as
- a loss/gain?
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- 3. What is short term/long term gain/loss?
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- 4. What is "wash sale"?
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- 5. If you sell lets say IBM today and get some loss of
- $X can you buy IBM (same or more quantity) tomorrow
- and still show it as a loss for 1992? What are the
- constraints/limits as far as days you've to wait, etc?
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- 6. What are the tax forms (additional) and publications
- you need to do this sort of filing?
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- 7. How much Dividend Reinvestment complicate this affair?
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- Please reply to das%kane@ece.ucsb.edu
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- Perhaps we can make it as an item called "Capital Loss/Gain
- and the IRS rules" in the FAQ being composed by Christofer Lott.
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- Thanks in advance.....
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- ...Amitav Das.
- UC-Santa Barbara.
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