Word: offsets
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First, you should consider taking as much as $3,000 in capital losses--the maximum amount you can use to offset ordinary income. If you're in the 27.5% tax bracket, this move can save you $825--or more if your state offers deductions...
...portfolio better, than the ones that you own. Often the answer is yes, and in those cases you should try to sell winners and losers in equal proportions to minimize your tax bill. "You can take the losses today, still remain in the market and use those losses to offset current capital gains," says financial planner Altair Gobo of U.S. Financial Services in Fairfield...
Next you should consider taking losses this year that you can use to offset future capital gains. Afraid to sell for fear the stock or fund will come roaring back? You can always record the loss and then buy back the same security 31 days later without violating the irs's "wash-sale" rule. You can also sell a security from your taxable account and then immediately purchase the same security in your tax-sheltered IRA or 401(k) account, says Martin Nissenbaum, Ernst & Young's national director of personal income tax planning...
...making their selections, each presidential candidate seemed to look for a running mate who could carry particular student groups and offset the candidate’s perceived weaknesses...
...fair, when it comes to the Middle Eastern quagmire, absolute objectivity may be too much to ask. But some semblance of balance in a professor’s presentation is not. Bland-centrists do not offset the rants of anti-Israel activists so zealous (and paranoid?) they fear the interference...