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Basis (or cost basis), as used in United States tax law, is the original cost of property, adjusted for factors such as depreciation. When a property is sold, the taxpayer pays/(saves) taxes on a capital gain /(loss) that equals the amount realized on the sale minus the sold property's basis.
After a sale is identified as a wash sale and if the replacement stock is bought within 30 days before or after the sale then the wash sale loss is added to the basis of the replacement stock. The basis adjustment preserves the benefit of the disallowed loss; the holder receives that benefit on a future sale of the replacement stock.
The company must have had less than $50M in aggregate gross assets at the time the stock was issued. [19] The company must be an "active business" in a qualified trade for substantially all of the holder's holding period. [20] The stock from a qualified company must be directly issued by the company and must be held for a minimum of 5 years. [21]
Finding the cost basis of inherited stock may sound intimidating, but it’s actually simple. It depends on the value of the stock at the time the previous owner died. The only exception is if the ...
"Gain", in the very simple case, is the amount a taxpayer receives when a taxpayer disposes of an asset, minus the taxpayer's basis in the asset. Thus, if a taxpayer sold the house above for $100,000, the taxpayer's gain (what the taxpayer might be taxed on) would be $65,000 (sales price of $100,000 minus the taxpayer's basis of $35,000), if we ...
The most common share repurchase method in the United States is the open-market stock repurchase, representing almost 95% of all repurchases. A firm will announce that it will repurchase some shares in the open market from time to time as market conditions dictate and maintains the option of deciding whether, when, and how much to repurchase.
Tax basis may be relevant in other tax computations. [1] Tax basis of a member's interest in a partnership and other flow-through entity is generally increased by the members share of income and reduced by the share of loss. The tax basis of property acquired by gift is generally the basis of the person making the gift.
California's new law is not as harsh as some in other states, such as Pennsylvania's milk labeling law, which requires the "sell by" date to be no more than 17 days after the product is pasteurized.