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- From: mark@infocomm.com
- Newsgroups: misc.taxes,misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Taxes and stocks (mostly)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.112255.19033@infocomm.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 11:22:55 PST
- References: <1992Nov17.171007.5661@desire.wright.edu> <1992Nov18.155751.20714@Princeton.EDU> <1992Nov19.133054.5703@desire.wright.edu> <1992Nov20.171006.25850@Princeton.EDU>
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- In article <1992Nov20.171006.25850@Princeton.EDU>, nfs@volkl (Norbert Schlenker) writes:
- > I'll admit you have a point. Ted Frank will admit you have a point.
- > But Ted Frank is talking about a situation where the capital gains
- > rate went from 20% to 28% over year end; that is not an insignificant
- > jump. Portfolios with large capital gains in them would be obvious
- > candidates for sale before such a change. The question is whether
- > it's better to pay a 1% commission today to avoid an 8% increase in
- > taxes. In many cases (I would guess in ALL cases where one would
- > anticipate a sale anyway within a few years), paying the commission is
- > the right thing to do.
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- You are comparing apples(1%) and oranges (8%).
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- The 1% commission is 1% of the Asset Value
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- The 8% tax delta is 8% of the Capital Gain.
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