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23 hours ago ago from FinSMEs

UK-based venture investor Longbow Capital LLP, has launched a new EIS Fund, a tax-efficient investment vehicle aimed to invest in a portfolio of emerging healthcare, life science and wellbeing companies. The fund, which is targeting to raise £10m by 1 April 2010, will invest in a portfolio of 6/8 companies within a 12 month period, in accordance with HMRC rules. Investment activity will be focused on technologies that are ...

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20 hours ago ago from After Hours Investing

This week's investing term is all about investment decisions motivated by tax implications. It's called tax selling and as the name suggests, it's when an investor sells an asset at a loss, in order to pay less taxes when he sells an asset at a profit. The way this works is that the U.S. tax code allows individuals to use an investment loss to offset capital gains taxes on profit making asset sales. The process is also commonly called ...

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5 hours ago ago from Offsetting Behaviour

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19 hours ago ago from Stock Strategy Trading

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22 hours ago ago from Poker Master

I would like to know of anyone has tried to use daily session win VS using the W2G as income. It seems to me this is a more fair way to report gambling income but maybe the IRS doesn't look at it that way. Unfortunately, a taxpayer who has any substantial W2G receipts and has equal losses is in the end paying more income tax. The Gambler _____ From: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com [mailto: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of ...

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16 hours ago ago from The New York Times

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19 hours ago ago from Politics Daily

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