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That gives you the chance to mismatch a long-term loss with a short-term gain and generate greater tax savings. Say you're in the top 39.6% tax bracket and have no short-term losses but a short-term gain of $1,000. You also have no long-term gains but a long-term loss of $1,000. That long-term loss offsets your short-term gain, rubbing out a $396 tax bill. If you had used the long-term loss against a long-term gain, where 20% is the tax rate, you would have rubbed out only...
...late now to fiddle with your '97 portfolio. But by examining your records closely, you may find room to mismatch gains and losses in your favor. Remember, though, that you can use any capital loss (as long as there are no countervailing capital gains) to offset up to $3,000 of ordinary income in a given year. That's generally the best way to use a loss...
...pursue doctorates in fields like Afro-American Studies, Women's Studies or other fields not transferable to a majority of the Faculty positions in a liberal arts institution. The effective use of retirements to free FTUs to appoint more women and minorities is consequently limited by this mismatch and the illegality of forced retirement...
...there is no master clef to this roman. Axel reads like a composite rather than a copy. He has spent more than half his years in chronic pain caused by wounds suffered during World War II. His marriage to Sylvia, a wellborn New Yorker and poet, was a mismatch. "Government's the opiate of the patrician masses," she tells him shortly before walking out. Her parting shot is that Axel, former oss operative and friend of Presidents, has "too many secrets, not enough mystery...
...master clef to this roman. Protagonist Axel Behl reads like a composite rather than a copy. He has spent more than half his years in chronic pain caused by wounds suffered during World War II. His marriage to Sylvia, a wellborn New Yorker and poet, was a mismatch. Her parting shot before leaving is that Axel, former OSS operative and friend of Presidents, has 'too many secrets, not enough mystery.' Ironically, what sets Echo House apart from the hyperrealities of the usual Washington novel is precisely its air of ineffability," notes Sheppard. "A novel with this much grievous personal history...