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- From: "hilary miller" <hilary.miller@execnet.com>
- Newsgroups: misc.taxes
- Subject: taxes on call options
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.1302.4064@execnet>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 16:13:18 EST
- Reply-To: "hilary miller" <hilary.miller@execnet.com>
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- Leons@hiroller Eng Sun Co, in a message to All on 12-22-92 at 10:57pm, said:
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- LE>|1. Suppose I own a stock and write covered call options against it
- | that expire next year. When is the premium recieved for the
- | sale of options taxable?
- | - this year, because that's when I receive the premium, OR
- | - next year, because that's when the options expire?
- |__________________________________________________________________
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- Assuming you are not engaged in the trade or busi-
- ness of writing options, the premium increases
- your amount realized at the time the stock is
- called away from you; or, if the call expires un-
- exercised, is a short-term capital gain to you on
- the date of expiration.
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- LE>|2. Is the interest charged on the margin account deductible?
- |____________________________________________________________
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- Yes, as investment interest, subject to the in-
- vestment interest deduction limitations.
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- L A
- I R Hilary B. Miller of Greenwich, Connecticut
- H/\Y CIS: 76040,1743
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