Tax concepts//53s
Tax-loss harvesting in one minute.
Sell a loser against a winner so your reportable gain nets out near zero, then buy something similar to stay invested. Short-term versus long-term gains, and why the wash-sale rules matter.
Transcript
High-net-worth investors use this all the time. It is simple, yet a lot of people are not aware of it. It is called tax-loss harvesting. Sell a winner, sell a loser, and net either a loss or a gain of zero.
Say you have Apple up three thousand and Nvidia down three thousand. Your reportable gain would be zero. Or say Nvidia is up three thousand and AMD is down four thousand. You would net a loss of one thousand.
The question is, what do you do with the proceeds? You buy a similar ETF or stock to stay invested. That is how many investors report zero or negative tax on short-term capital gains, which is under a year, or long-term capital gains, which is over a year. It is a common strategy when executed correctly, and the wash-sale rules matter.
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