The tax shelters remove any reason for selling in order to create a tax loss.
The advent of exchange-traded funds, for this reason, has made tax loss harvesting easier.
If you want the tax loss, most brokers will tell you, you have to take a risk.
Faneuil called Bacanovic, who told him emphatically that Stewart's ImClone sale was to generate a tax loss, Faneuil testified.
According to its published accounts, the company made a pre-tax loss in 2010-11 and paid no dividends to shareholders.
To focus on one pre-tax loss figure is to miss a much bigger, more complex and more interesting picture.
If you depreciate the condo, it will make your tax loss even larger.
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John Malone who controls Liberty loves nothing more than tax loss carry forwards.
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If you always kept the wine to drink, you can't sell a bum vintage and then take a tax loss.
Those deals let you buy an interest in a building often designed to lose money so you could report a tax loss.
For example, a security or fund may have an unrealized tax loss that would benefit the holder in a specific tax year.
Personalfund also tracks the basis of each lot of stock in your portfolio and suggests replacements if you want to sell a stock to book a tax loss.
This rule is called the "wash sale" rule, and it says that when you sell something for a tax loss and then buy it right back you can't claim the loss.
The remaining advisor respondents are taking advantage of tax loss harvesting (thirteen percent), taking gains this year at a potentially lower rate (eleven percent) or moving their clients into lower tax structured products (eleven percent).
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The law was written for two private corporations so that a tax -- so that a corporate raider -- and this happened in the '80s -- would buy one unprofitable corporation, use their tax loss write-off to benefit the profits they were making another corporation.
Using tax loss harvesting to defer capital gains taxes is like receiving an interest-free loan from the IRS. Also, if you (and your spouse) are still holding the shares when you die, your heirs will receive a stepped-up basis, and you will have gotten the up-front benefit from tax loss harvesting while avoiding the taxes on the back end entirely.
Tax-loss selling and tax planning sales have also contributed to the recently poor performance, he adds.
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Well actually that speech on foreign land, if you read it again, this is the intriguing thing, all of that was about Europe, about the incursion of Europe into the United Kingdom and taking away so much of our ability to govern ourselves, you know the loss of currency, the loss of tax, the loss of many of the powers and now we're seeing the Euro army.
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Alas, the tax-loss game has got a little trickier because of a law change.
You can prevent that by putting cash from a tax-loss sale into discounted bonds.
Well, the end of the year is approaching fast, and the tax-loss selling should have mostly run its course.
In 2008, Wealthfront identified nearly 80 trades that were economically advantageous to make from a tax-loss harvesting perspective, net of commissions.
Wealthfront also found that more diverse portfolios, in the middle of their risk spectrum, had the most to gain from continuous tax-loss harvesting compared to year-end only.
Tax-loss selling tends to occur during August to late December.
If you happened to buy last year's stocks, a good move now would be to make a tax-loss sale of the laggards and use the proceeds to help pay for this year's crop.
Eighteen days later Mr Flowers had acquired a controlling interest in Enstar, a small firm in Alabama that had two big attractions: a stockmarket value beneath its cash holdings, and a tax-loss to carry forward.
Another possibility posed by researchers: tax-loss harvesting.
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