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- From: rlcarr@animato.network23.com (Rich Carreiro)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Institutions vs. Individuals (TAX question)
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- References: <8497@btr.BTR.COM> <1992Dec23.025623.13344@microsoft.com>
- X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
- Date: 23 Dec 92 21:12:26 EST
- Organization: The Other Side of Life
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- In article <1992Dec23.025623.13344@microsoft.com> mattsq@microsoft.com (Matthew Squires) writes:
- > You are forgetting the other tax consequence of mutual funds, a
- > consequence a lot of us are discovering this time of year - a mutual
- > fund must distribute most of its capital gains to its shareholders
- > every year.
-
- Not quite. Only *NET REALIZED* capital gains are distributed (and
- dividend and interest income, of course).
-
- In other words, if the fund doesn't realize a net gain (i.e. it didn't
- sell any stocks, or the ones it sold were balanced out buy sells for losses)
- there is no distribution, even if the stocks in the fund soar. For an
- example, check out 20th Cent Ultra's 1991 return and it's 1991 cap gain dist
- (it was $0.00/share, in case you were wondering).
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