The wash sale rule is important when you are selling and rebuying stocks to offset losses.

Harvesting market losses is a great way to lower your tax bill. But don’t violate this key rule Written By Written by Contributor, Buy Side Anna-Louise Jackson is a contributor to Buy Side and an ...

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What is the wash-sale rule? Investors cannot claim a tax loss on the sale of a security if they buy a “substantially identical” security within 30 days before or after the sale, as per the wash-sale ...

Institutional investors are harvesting ETF losses for tax purposes, then placing their assets in highly correlated funds — regardless of so-called wash-sale restrictions, a new study found. "While the ...

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In December 2022, I was quoted in an article in “Tax Notes” by Lee Sheppard to the effect that the wash sales rule in Internal Revenue Code (Code) Section 1091(a) (losses from wash sales of stock or ...

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Selling losing investments to offset capital gains can be a great way to lower your tax bill. But be careful you don’t violate the Internal Revenue Service’s “wash sale” rule. As an investor, any time ...