FINANCEaprofitthat is made bysellingpropertyor aninvestment:a long-term/short-term capital gainIn the US,short-termcapitalgainsaregenerallytaxableasordinaryincome.
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capital gainAccordingly, the taxpayers gain was recalculated in accordance with 453 and taxpayer was notified that it had recognized an additional $12,098 in long termcapitalgain.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.If held onto and disposed of after the seventh year, it may be treated as acapitalgain.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is distinguished from acapitalgainwhich is the profit achieved by selling an asset.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.If tax deferred amounts have reduced it to zero, then any excess must be declared as acapitalgainin the year received.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The netcapitalgainresulting from the sale of an active asset can be reduced by the amount spent on a nominated replacement asset.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Likewise subtracting dollar amounts that represent different amounts of purchasing power may result in an apparentcapitalgainwhich is actually a capital loss.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Until 2010, for stock held for more than twelve months thecapitalgainwas exempt.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The exception is if the market declines significantly on low volatility so that thecapitalgainoutweighs the volatility loss.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Most states taxcapitalgainand dividend income in the same manner as other investment income.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The total return is thecapitalgainor loss, plus any interest or dividend payments.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/capital-gain##
