Year End - Tax Harvesting

There are many things you should consider when it comes to end-of-year tax planning, but today Rich and Jag are focusing on Tax Loss Harvesting.

To understand tax loss harvesting, we will want to define terms.  Rich walks us through cost basis, capital gains (long and short term), capital losses (long and short term), carry-over losses, and the Wash Rule.

Tax loss harvesting is when you take your investment losses for the year and use them to offset your investment gains, lowering your tax burden.  Also, in years where your losses more than offset your gains, you can carry that over many years, using $3,000 of losses each year.

Rich walks us through the many benefits of tax loss harvesting, but also some of the pitfalls.  The Wash Rule comes into play here, harvesting is only for taxable accounts, and excess short-term trading can lead to headaches.

If you want to know more about tax loss harvesting (this might be the year to use it), or anything related to your finances, you can reach Rich at New Century Financial Group:
https://ncfg.com/
By email at [email protected]
or by phone at (609) 924-2049, extension 126,