Myopically, I wonder whether the star will pay ordinary income or capital gain on all that revenue?
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Either way, the assets grow tax-deferred and withdrawals are taxed as ordinary income, not capital gain.
In many cases for inventors and flow through entities, IP can produce capital gain rather than ordinary income.
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Gone are the questions for shareholders about which gains could be taxed as capital gain rather than ordinary income.
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Tax nerds were whirring away with programs over which gains could be taxed as capital gain rather than ordinary income.
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All income or loss would be separated into three buckets: tax credits, capital gain rate items, and ordinary income (all other items).
The advantage to this strategy: Lewis would convert ordinary income into lower-taxed capital gain, and he would participate in continued price appreciation in the stock.
So if trust income is a mixture of dividend, capital gain and tax-free income (from muni bonds or principal), the ordinary income must be used up before the payout can be taxed as gain, and gain must be used before the payout can be tax-free.
There is only a smaller real cash gain, and it is taxed at ordinary-income rates.
Often they will exercise the options and sell the stock simultaneously, in which case they are taxed on the gain in the value of the stock as ordinary income.
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He can live off money borrowed against that huge sum (rest assured, he can get good interest rates), never having to sell any asset at a gain, and never having to get an "ordinary" salary again.
Capital gain rates are set to increase from 15% to ordinary income tax rates as high as 43.4% if you are in the top tax bracket and factor in the new Medicare tax on unearned income.
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As a collectible, if your gain is short-term, then it is taxed as ordinary income.
When you do sell, which hopefully will be a long time from now, some of your gain will be taxed at the favored 18% or 20% capital gain rate, some at 25%, and some at full ordinary income rates.
But ordinary country-dwellers may not only enjoy the greater rights of access themselves, but may also gain if wealthy urban walkers spend more money locally.
For most of us, the practical dollar effects of AMT are far more than the capital gain rate spread, or between 35% and 39.6% top rates on ordinary income.
For most of us, the practical dollar and cents effects of AMT are far more than a mere 15% and 20% capital gain rate spread, or between a 35% and 39.6% top rate on ordinary income.
The long-term capital gain, however, would be taxed at a low rate, a little more than half your ordinary income rate.
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