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Income Investing Made Easy - Two
Base income includes the dividends and interest produced by your portfolio, without the realized capital gains that may actually be the larger number much of the time. No matter how you slice it, your long-range comfort demands regularly increasing income, and by using your total portfolio cost basis as the benchmark, it's easy to determine where to invest your accumulating cash.
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Tax Code Strikes Again --- Proven Cause of Early Onset Investor Dementia
How could any investor not be thrilled with large amounts of capital gains on top of significant tax free income? Concerned that an income tax liability is created by such wanton disregard for the tax code, some investors actually prefer to have no short term profits at all! Talk about shooting oneself in the foot.
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Investor Political Priorities - A Survey - Part 2
Is it enough to say that we tax pension and other retirement income, including the sacred pittance from Social Security. The income tax needs to be revised, reformed, or replaced by something. Eliminating the tax on all forms of retirement and investment income, including capital gains, rents, royalties, etc. would have incredible positive effects (and would guarantee a Pennsylvania Avenue address for eight years).
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How to minimize your taxes on wealth
Taxes on wealth or simply wealth tax is the tax levied on the value of wealth owned by a person. As the term ‘wealth’ carries with it a broader meaning, generally capital transfer taxes (which include inheritance tax and gift tax), property tax, and capital gains taxes are some times invariably referred to as wealth taxes.
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401k Retirement Plans Explained
401k retirement plans are special types of accounts, financed through pre-tax payroll deductions. The funds in your account are invested in various ways. Your funds can be invested through any number of stocks, mutual funds, and other ways, and it is not taxed on any capital gains or interest until the money is pulled out or withdrawn. Congress approved this retirement savings plan in 1981, and its name was rooted from the section of the Internal Revenue Code that contains it...
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How To Eliminate Capital Gains Tax
First off I will give a short summary of the Capital Gains Elimination Trust (CGET). Then, I will provide some details about how it works and conclude with a case study as an example of how someone might use this. Summary:The Capital Gains Elimination Trust is better known as a Charitable Remainder Trust. How this works is one would deposit highly appreciated assets into the CGET. The trust sells the assets and pays no capital gains tax. You then get to withdraw an...
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Three Ways To Maximise Your Roi When Purchasing Investment Property – Part 2
Property Investment is growing in importance today in the global investment arena as more and more developing economies open up giving us the chance to make vast capital gains offshore. This article deals with how to buy property at a bargain so as to boost your ROI and continues from the previous article in our three part article series on how to maximise your ROI when purchasing investment property.Most people, know the stock market adage, buy low sell high and attempt ...
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Captial Gains Tax Explained
Capital Gains tax is a federal tax penalty that is imposed on capital accumulation, investment and productivity. Some of the income that is subject to capital gains tax includes the sale of an investment, a home, a family business, a farm or ranch or even a work of art.
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The Skinny on 1031 Exchange: Maximizing Profits by Minimizing your Tax Liability
A 1031 exchange refers to Section 1.1031 of the Internal Revenue Code which was passed in 1990. Normally, when you sell all real and personal property, the tax code requires the payment of the Capital Gains Tax.
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Real Estate Owners Should Plan Now Before Tax Breaks Expire
Owners of real estate need to plan ahead to take advantage of recently enacted tax breaks that are scheduled to sunset at some point between now and December 31, 2010.
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Capital gains
When you buy a real estate in Maryland and sell it for a higher price, the difference between the selling price and the purchase price is known as capital gain. In other words, profit from selling a property for a higher price is the capital gain on the property. Capital gains may be short-term or long-term.
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1031 Exchanges - The Legal Way To Defer Investment Property Capital Gains Tax
With the booming property prices of recent years, more and more people are finding themselves facing a large tax bill when they come to sell their investment properties. However, did you realize that there is a perfectly legal way of deferring payment of such taxes by utilizing the advantageous 1031 tax code that was introduced by the IRS in the early 1990s?
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Congress Enacts New Laws Making Iras Better Than Ever!
Have you heard of the non-deductible IRA? I'm not referring to the ROTH IRA, but a traditional IRA that many people are stuck with as their only option (for various reasons that make investing in other types of IRAs unavailable).In those cases, the IRS allows you to contribute to a traditional IRA, but NOT take a tax deduction for it.You still get tax-deferred growth, but during retirement your earnings (interest and capital gains) will be taxed, but not the contrib...
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Home Appreciation and Capital Gains
The last seven years has seen tremendous appreciation in home prices. This brings up the issue of home capital gains tax issues for people when they sell.
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Wave “Goodbye” To Uncle Sam’s Taxes
There exists an incredibly powerful wealth-building strategy that has been around since 1921, and is still used by the country's most savvy real estate investors. Remarkably, the IRS made this tax deferral possible.Put simply, you can defer (possibly forever, if you meet a certain condition which I’ll share in a moment) capital gains taxes on the profits from the sale of a foreign property if you use the proceeds of the sale to buy another foreign property.I’ve helped...
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Understanding The Three Different Types of Income
Part of learning to become financially free is to begin to understand that there are three different types of income. They are: capital gains, passive income, and earned income. They are the three types of ways to make money, and are very easy to understand.
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What is a 1031 Exchange?
Many people who sell an investment property believe that federal capital gains from that sale must always be handed over to the IRS. This is not always the case. IRS Code Section 1031 offers investors the opportunity to reinvest federal capital gains from a sale if you swap that property for another…and it does not always have to be for ‘like property’ either! Instead, as an investor, you could have that money work for you rather than end up in the hands of the IRS. Further, ...
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Refinancing Real Estate Investments
Refinancing real estate investments can make much more sense than sellng them. This is especially true for rental houses and apartment buildings.
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Refinance Rental Property - Don't Sell It
Think it's time to sell those rental houses, or that apartment building you own? You may reconsider once you see the advantages of refinancing over selling.
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More Return On Equity For Your Investment Property Dollar
1031 Exchange benefits for investors. Gain more return on your investment property dollar. Achieve an attractive combination of stability, reliable cash flow, preservation of principal and capital appreciation. The marriage of 1031 Exchange and TIC/CORE allows investors not only to defer their capital gains taxes but also to upgrade their investment real estate.
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Spread Betting Slowly Evolving Towards Mainstream
The advantage of spread betting, as opposed to buying shares, is that it offers one of the simplest ways to bet on markets moving downwards, as they have in recent months. Moreover, bets are free of stamp duty, while any gains are not subject to capital gains tax (CGT).Most regular readers will be fully aware that the best way to enhance their trading account is to trade with leverage. In days gone by, the only way to leverage an equity position in the UK market was to bu...
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Tithing - Giving Money Away To Gain Tax Benefits
No good deed goes unrewarded. This is even true as far as the tax man is concerned.As human beings we are compelled to help those who are less fortunate than ourselves. It makes us feel good inside when we are able to help a family in trouble, donate money to the church, or donate our old clothes to the Good Will. But did you know that these acts of kindness can actual lower the amount of taxes that you pay?Tax credits are given by our government to encourage and rewa...
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Basic Principles Of An Investing Club
Investment clubs are created by individuals who not only want to pool their funds together to make a joint investment but would also like to gain knowledge on the various types of viable investment opportunities that are available in the market. Each member of the club contributes periodically an agreed amount of money to purchase growth stocks by means of a dollar cost averaging approach. The dividends as well as the capital gains are usually reinvested to gain more inte...
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1031 Exchange and Tenancy-in-Common: Seeking the Right Advisor to Achieve TIC Investment Objectives
With its features and benefits, TIC/CORE is an increasingly popular 1031 exchange option for many real estate investors. However, 1031 exchanges and TIC/CORE transactions are very complicated, with both tax and legal issues topping the list of potential pitfalls. Section 1031 allows real estate investors to sell property that has been held for investment purposes and defer capital gains and depreciation recapture taxes if they acquire 'like-kind' exchange property of equal or greater value ...
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Stock and Bond Trading as a Conservative Investment Strategy (May, 2007)
Trading does not have to be done quickly to be productive, and it doesn't have to focus on higher risk securities to be profitable. And perhaps most importantly, it doesn't have to avoid the interest rate sensitive income securities that are so important to the long-term success of any true investment portfolio. No more calls of your highest yielding paper when interest rates fall. Instead, you are taking capital gains, compounding your yield Of course its magic.
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