If you don’t love overpaying in taxes every year…👇🏼
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It’s extremely important to learn the basics of how to keep taxes to a minimum inside of your investments
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Tax loss harvesting is a common way to be able to report a “lower” amount of gains, which can end up in less taxes that you owe come tax time
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In a nutshell, it involves you selling investments at a loss to use said losses as a “write off” against the gains that you lock in
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Here’s the “order of operations” for tax loss harvesting:
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1) Calculate the gains you’ve locked in
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2) Calculate the losses you’ve locked in
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3) Subtract your losses from your gains
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If you still have losses remaining after subtracting them from your gains, you have what’s called a “net capital loss”
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In the case that you have a net capital loss for the year, up to $3k of the “remaining” losses can be deducted from your gross income
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And if you still have losses rema...
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