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If you have a capital loss of $4,000 in one year and you deduct the limit of $3,000 on your income tax return, what happens to the leftover $1,000?
You carry it over to the next year. The IRS lets you carry over any undeducted loss into subsequent years.
2.
The idea behind creating a class of "qualified dividends" is to prevent _______.
Double taxation. The idea behind making some dividends qualified is to reduce double taxation -- that is, taxation of the same profits at both the corporate and shareholder levels.
3.
When does your five-taxable-year period for Roth IRAs start?
On Jan. 1 of the tax year when you make your first contribution or conversion to a Roth IRA.
4.
If you should have both large capital gains and large capital losses, what would be the most effective way to reduce taxes on the gains?
Realize both the gain and the loss in the same year. If you did this, the losses would offset the gains. If you did either of the other two approaches, you would either be stuck with a tax bill or you might have to stretch out your losses over many years.
5.
If you sell a stock six months after buying it and you realize a profit on it, your gain will be taxed at _______.
The ordinary income rate. This is a short-term gain and is therefore taxed at the ordinary income rate, which is higher than the tax rate on long-term gains.
