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- From: "hilary miller" <hilary.miller@execnet.com>
- Newsgroups: misc.taxes
- Subject: original issue discou
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.1302.4063@execnet>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 16:13:18 EST
- Reply-To: "hilary miller" <hilary.miller@execnet.com>
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- E. T. Peterson(eric, in a message to All on 12-22-92 at 10:57pm, said:
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- ET>|a) In 2011, will I be able to write off the principal and all interest
- |a capital loss? (Yes, I know there is a $3000 limit on losses. Assume I
- |it rich that year and have plenty of gains to offset!)
- |_______________________________________________________________________
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- Yes. The OID that accretes is added to basis.
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- ET>|b) Does the writeoff in 2011 include compunded interest or simple inter
- |$3300 compounded at 10% gives a $20182 writeoff. Simple interest gives
- |_______________________________________________________________________
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- Your basis in 2011 will be your cost plus the sum
- of all the accreted OID. That *should* be roughly
- the same as compound interest from the date of
- issuance, which means the discounted offering
- price plus all the accreted OID should be the val-
- ue at maturity.
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- ET>|c) Is the OID that I pay taxes on each year the simple interest ($330 p
- |or is it compounded (rises every year).
- |_______________________________________________________________________
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- It rises every year if there are no intermediate
- cash interest payments.
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- ET>|d) If I sell now, do I get a capital loss of $3300-$5= $3295?
- |_____________________________________________________________
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- Depends on what you *paid* for the bonds. But,
- yes, approximately.
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- L A
- I R Hilary B. Miller of Greenwich, Connecticut
- H/\Y CIS: 76040,1743
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