This Stock is about to drop drastically, if you've enjoyed the 5, 10 or 15 cent gains recently, you better take your money and run. A better Choice is YRCW if you really want to make money. Only fools invest in YMI.
Taxes on investment gains fall into two categories, long and short term capital gains.
15% for Long Term, Ordinary Rates for short term www.TaxMeThis.com
Short offset shorts first, then they offset longs. Your better to have them offset short, as short is taxed at ordinary rate and long at special lower rate. A stock sale is a capital gain/loss transaction.
can long term gains be offset by short term losses
Gold stock is typically a good long term investment but not a good short term investment. Price fluctations can vary to much for short term investments.
Capital gain taxes are based in large part on your ordinary tax rate.... * Ordinary tax rate 10%, long term capital gains tax 0%, short term capital gains tax 10% * Ordinary tax rate 15%, long term capital gains tax 0%, short term capital gains tax 15% * Ordinary tax rate 25%, long term capital gains tax 15%, short term capital gains tax 25% * Ordinary tax rate 28%, long term capital gains tax 15%, short term capital gains tax 28% * Ordinary tax rate 33%, long term capital gains tax 15%, short term capital gains tax 33% * Ordinary tax rate 35%, long term capital gains tax 15%, short term capital gains tax 35%
One year makes any gain from the sale a long term capital gain which is at a lower tax rate than a short term gain.
There is no such animal as a short term capital gain or loss... When you hold the stock for a year or more it is treated as capital and the tax rate on your realized gains is (currently) 15%. If you sell out and had held for less than a year, your gain or loss is netted together with other ordinary income such as the pay you get from a regular job, and is subject to the same tax rates as for your regular paycheck.
Stock losses are capital losses. They can be taken against capital gains. (There are some matching rules - like long and short term, but generally yes). In fact, up to K a year of unused cpaital losses can be applied against ordinary income. Unused losses are alos able to be darried forward.
You must first take them against stock gains (of the same type, long or short) and you may take up to 3,000 a year losses against ordinary income after that. Any unused losses can be carried forward to the next year.
If the stock is a factory stock of either short,or long action.Then I have seen them selling for between 85-150 dollars depending on the condition of the wood and a good finish remaining on the stock.
The O has a short O sound, as in stock and pop.