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- From: ask@cbnews.cb.att.com (Arthur S. Kamlet)
- Subject: Re: Best Way to Take Long-Term Cap Gains?
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 03:42:22 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.034222.25733@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Dec28.232403.9917@netcom.com>
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- In article <1992Dec28.232403.9917@netcom.com> dman@netcom.com (Dallman Ross) writes:
- >I am lucky enough to have owned Microsoft for over 6 years now. I have
- >seen my investment go up about 6.5 times. I don't want to sell. But
- >I am finishing up graduate school and this might be a good year to sell,
- >since I have no real income and have about $12,000-worth of deductions
- >that I could use. By the end of next year I will hopefully be gainfully
- >employed, and it seems to me that it would be foolish to sell the stock
- >and pay capital gains when I'll be in a higher tax bracket.
- >
- >Are the long-term capital gains laws going to be changing? How long
-
- Clinton sure hasn't been strong about changing the capital gains
- laws, so I wouldn't count on any change.
-
-
- >would I have to sit on my profits before buying more Microsoft if I
- >don't really want to be out of it but want the sale to be taxed in 1992?
-
- Oh, all of about 5 microseconds. You can give your broker
- simultaneous sell/buy orders. If you are very very lucky, you might
- get a "preferred" or reduced commission rate for this round trip
- sell/buy, but your broker is not obligated to help you out here.
-
- But there is no need to wait after you sell a stock at a agin before
- you buy it again.
-
- >Any advice would be appreciated. Guess I've just got a couple of
- >days to decide what to do.
-
- Look at the effect on your taxes each way.
- --
- Art Kamlet a_s_kamlet@att.com AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
-