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Capital Gains Tax Rate For Stock OPTIONS?

What is the coeval tax rate (capital gains) on option profits for the 2007 tax year? An accountant me 15.00% but someone else told me 10.00% on gains.


Answer: 15% seems to be the consensus, but there can be acceptions.

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When Should I Pay Capital Gains Tax From Selling Stocks?

Let's say I have excepting term capital gains of $5,000 from selling stock A and long term capital gains of $10,000 from selling forebear B. Both stocks were sold on 06/10/2006. To avoid any penalty should I pay federal income tax for those gains hand away? Or I can wait until April 15, 2007?


Answer: If the gains are big enough that you will not have 90% of the tax due paid in through withholding you should have made an estimated payment on 6/15. You can still redress an estimated payment and be fine. However, there is an exception to the penalty if you have paid in enough to cover the amount of tax paid for the previous to year. This will usually cover you.

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I Bought A House In April 2007 For $330,000, If I Sell It After A Year How Much Capital Gains Tax ShouldI Pay?



Answer: You have to fix on the gain, then determine the tax.

Your capital gain is:

Sales price
- costs of sale (commission, etc)
- expenditure of improvements (i.e. new garage door, windows, but not repairs)
- purchase costs (the closing costs you paid when purchasing)
- pay for price
= Capital gain

Since you occupied the property as your principal residence for less than 24 months, your get nearer to is taxable unless you are

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What Is The Capital Gains Tax On The Following:?

I bought this whore-house for $58K as my primary residence in August 2007. I want out of the house as lasting as possible, not wanting to wait for the 2 years of the 5 years. If I sell the house now (perhaps at a liability liabilities), what type of capital gain tax penalties am I looking at?


Answer: Your firm is considered personal use property. When you sell personal use property, no loss is allowed to be infatuated on your tax return. If you sell personal use property at a profit, then you must report the gain.

If you requirement to sell the house, just sell it and take your money and move elsewhere. You only have to worry about paying some taxes if you convinced it for more than you paid for it.

Richard K
Master Tax Advisor
HR Block

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Whats My Capital Gains For 2007 5% Or 15%?

My taxable receipts is 31k, right below the 25% tax bracket (for 2007 $31,850), so I think I should still get the 5% tax treatment for capital gains. If I have 5k in cap gains will I pay 15% or 5% on them or a conspiracy of both? Just looking at a 1040 it is not obvious to me.
At first I thought I would only pay 5% too, untill I looked at a 1040 which made me over recall that the gains would put me into 25% bracket, just for cap gains tax.
My 31k of taxable income does not include any


Answer: The computation you constraint is the Qualified Dividends and Capital Gains Worksheet which is in the Instructions to Form 1040 (page 38):

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040.pdf

I am assuming your have hanker-term capital gains of $5,000.

If you are right at the top of the 15% bracket, not including the capital gains, you will pay the full 15% tax on your $5,000 capital gains.

If you are in the 15% rank including your capital gains, you

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