Short-term capital gain

Short-term capital gain or loss
A gain or loss on the sale or exchange of a security that has been held one year or less.

Short-term capital gain
A profit on the sale of a security or mutual fund share that has been held for one year or less. A short-term capital gain is taxed as ordinary income.
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Short-Term Capital Gain: Short-term capital gain is money that is gained from the sale or exchange of capital assets held less than 12 months, I.R.C. § 1(h).

Short-Term Capital Gain or Loss
An individual's profit or loss from the sale of a capital asset that is held for one year or less.

Short-term capital gains are taxed at your regular income tax rate. If the Bush tax cut is extended, then you don't have to pay taxes on long-term capital gains if you are in the 10% and 15% tax brackets.

- Short-term capital gains - If you sell stock for a gain and you've owned the stock for just one year or less, the gain is considered ordinary income.

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A net short-term capital gain is treated as ordinary income. A net long-term capital gain is generally subject to a maximum tax rate.

SHORT-TERM CAPITAL GAINS Capital gain derived from the disposal of assets which have been held for a comparatively short period of time.

Capital gains tax is broken down into two categories: short-term capital gains and long-term capital gains.

In this strategy you hope to make a short-term capital gain by betting correctly on the direction that long-term interest rates move. This method could also be used to bet that long-term interest rates will rise.

Box 1 reports a combined total for dividend income and short-term capital gains (since short-term gains are taxed at ordinary income tax rates). Box 1b reports the portion of Box 1a that is Qualified Dividends.

Shareholders must pay short-term capital gains taxes at regular income tax rates on securities sold by the mutual fund that have been held for less than 12 months, no matter how long the shareholder owned shares in the mutual fund.

Income includes salary and other employment income, interest and dividends, and long- and short-term capital gains and losses.

While buy-and-hold reduces the money you pay in transaction fees and short-term capital gains taxes, it requires patience and careful decision-making.

Trading gains that occur in one year or less are short-term capital gains; those that occur in periods longer than one year are long-term capital gains. Short-term and long-term capital gains are treated differently for tax purposes.

In figuring long- and short-term capital gains on your tax return, you use the trade date - the date you buy or sell a security - rather than the settlement date as the date of record.
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If you've held the asset more than one year, the capital gain is long-term; if less than one year, it's a short-term capital gain.

If you hold the stock for less than a year, you have a short-term capital gain. Most long-term capital gains are taxed at a lower rate than other income, while short-term gains are taxed at your regular rate.

Payments to mutual fund investors of dividends, interest, and/or short-term capital gains earned on the fund's portfolio securities after deducting operating expenses.

mutual fund program that allows shareholders to receive a fixed payment each month or each quarter. The payment comes from dividends, including short-term capital gains, and income on securities held by the fund.

To determine this figure, all income and short-term capital gains distributions are taxed at the maximum federal rate at the time of distribution. Long-term capital gains are taxed at a 15% rate. The after tax portion is then reinvested in the fund.

For mutual funds, income is earned on a fund's investment portfolio after deducting operating expenses. Dividends and/or short-term capital gains are paid to a mutual fund's shareholders.
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For options and government securities, the settlement date is one day, or T+1, after the trade date. In figuring long- and short-term capital gains on your tax return, ...

A profit on the sale of a security or mutual fund share that has been held for one year or less. A short-term capital gain is taxed as ordinary income.
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Because long-term capital gains are treated more favorably (holding more than 1 year, all the gains will be taxed as long-term gains at 15%) than short-term capital gains and interest, the tax treatment of ETNs is highly attractive.

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