Friday, January 29, 2021

There was an even more bizarre form of this

"People Are Starting To Scramble": 2020's Newbie Traders Face A Lesson In Capital Gains Taxes

I was aught in a stock swap and the IRS charged me a capital gain even though I never cashed out. Then the stock plunged, and they still wanted the same percentage. It was, in the end, a bizarre compromise in the Senate, none of the Senators clued in about this side effect.

The classic failure to assume information in the senate that was unknowable, at the time.

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