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From 1998 through 2017, tax law keyed the tax rate for long-term capital gains to the taxpayer's tax bracket for ordinary income, and set forth a lower rate for the capital gains. (Short-term capital gains have been taxed at the same rate as ordinary income for this entire period.) [ 16 ] This approach was dropped by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ...
With the stock market up 30% in 2013, you likely have some capital gains if you owned mutual funds or sold any stocks during the year. There were some big changes between Capital Gains Tax Rate ...
For the tax year 2013, some taxpayers experienced the first year-to-year income-tax rate increase since 1993, although the rate increase came about not as a result of the 2012 Act, but as a result of the expiration of the Bush tax cuts. The new rates for income, capital gains, estates, and the alternative minimum tax would be made permanent. [3 ...
The 2014 capital gains tax rates already include a little bump -- those in the highest tax bracket used to pay 15% for long-term gains, but that has been raised to 20%. There's also a 3.8% net ...
Lower bracket exclusions: The fiscal cliff negotiations of 2012 extended the 0% tax rate on long-term capital gains for taxpayers in the 10% and 15% tax brackets. That is, this year,married payers ...
The tax rate on long-term gains was reduced in 1997 via the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 from 28% to 20% and again in 2003, via the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003, from 20% to 15% for individuals whose highest tax bracket is 15% or more, or from 10% to 5% for individuals in the lowest two income tax brackets (whose highest ...
By Bonnie Lee Happy New Year! I don't know what you did on New Year's Eve, but we all know what Congress did: they finally hammered down some tax legislation for 2013 and beyond. These last ...
The tax rate then decreases once the capital gain becomes a long-term capital gain, or is held for 1 year or more. In 1964, the effective capital gains tax rate was 25%. This means that the actual tax percentage of all capital gains realized in the U.S. in 1964 was 25% as opposed to the nominal capital gains tax rate, or the percentage that ...