How to Use capital gain in a Sentence

capital gain

noun
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  • The top rate for long-term capital gains was left untouched at 20 percent.
    — Bloomberg.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • This rate is lower than the short-term (less than a year) capital gains rate, which is taxed as ordinary income.
    — Ed Finke, Cincinnati.com, 8 Feb. 2018
  • But money managers have successfully argued for years that carried interest is a capital gain.
    — Miles Weiss, Houston Chronicle, 14 Feb. 2018
  • The government is also proposing a new tax on capital gains to capture some of the wealth being created as India’s stock market rises to new highs.
    — New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Other incoming measures are less potent: investors will have to pay taxes on capital gains and register trading accounts under their real names.
    — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Investment income that mostly flows to the richest households, such as capital gains and stock dividends, is usually subject to state income taxes.
    — Steve Wamhoff, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Under the old rules, some cryptocoin investors applied a legal maneuver often used with real estate investments to defer their capital gains.
    — Tara Siegel Bernard, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Indeed, carried interest, whereby private-equity firms’ profits are taxed at the rate imposed on capital gains, rather than that on income, only applies to partnerships.
    — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The well-off got cuts in the capital gains tax and the wealth tax.
    — Cole Stangler, TIME, 8 July 2024
  • If an investor buys a share for $3 and sells it for $5, the capital gain is $2.
    — Laura Saunders and Richard Rubin, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
  • If the daughter sells it for that amount, no capital gain tax would be owed.
    — Liz Weston, oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2020
  • The top rate for long-term capital gains was left untouched at 20%.
    — Claire Zillman, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Indeed, that has long been seen as a flaw in our capital gains tax law.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Those sales will only be taxed as a long-term capital gain at a 20% tax rate.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 16 Nov. 2021
  • The Senate left the short-term capital gains rate unchanged.
    — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2023
  • Proceeds from the deal could then be treated as a capital gain, the thinking goes.
    — Sabrina Willmer, Fortune, 30 June 2021
  • That's going to five us a lot of capital gains revenue.
    — Fox News, 24 Sep. 2018
  • These numbers are just to give you an idea of how capital gains taxes work.
    — Liz Weston Of Nerdwallet, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2024
  • As with the sale of any art investment, that capital gain or loss would be taxed as a collectible.
    — Kelli María Korducki, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2022
  • But then the bubble burst, leading to a sharp drop in capital gains tax revenue.
    — Jeff Stein, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2023
  • But that was a huge drop in capital gains revenue from the previous year.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2024
  • Big gains build up because the investor doesn’t want to sell and pay capital gains taxes.
    — Liz Weston, latimes.com, 24 June 2018
  • Democrats, however, vowed to oppose the change to how capital gains are taxed.
    — Fox News, 31 July 2018
  • The first seven years of profits are supposed to be taxed by the U.S. government at the capital gains rate of up to 23.8 percent.
    — Jesse Drucker, New York Times, 28 May 2024
  • Currently, the top rate for long-term capital gains, or assets owned for more than one year, is 20%.
    — Kate Dore, Cfp®, CNBC, 20 July 2024
  • That $3,000 capital gain would be subject to the short-term capital gains rate.
    — CBS News, 26 Jan. 2022
  • For households worth more than $1 million, capital gains would be taxed at the same rate as their wage income.
    — Courtney Subramanian, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023
  • If, further down the road, the buyer decided to sell the NFT, they would be required to report the sale as a capital gain or loss.
    — Kelli María Korducki, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Wealth Taxes: An increase in capital gains tax on shares is expected rather than equalizing rates with income tax.
    — Samuel Burke, Fortune Europe, 29 Oct. 2024
  • How to pay for tax cuts Harris would look to offset the loss of tax revenue by raising the corporate income tax rate to 28% and increasing the long-term capital gains and the net investment income tax for high earners.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2024

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