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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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I tried to claim the capital loss on turbo tax and it wouldn't let me. Would a tax professional have a way around this? Assuming the condo was your peresonal residence the loss would not be deductible for tax return purposes. You should have converted it to a rental property and sell it after a couple of years of rental.
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