AUTHOR: Randy Dobkin on 7/18/2024 FIRST: baldscreen on 7/18/2024 | RECENT: Mark Eckman on 7/20/2024
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I cleaned the tanks in my dad's shrimp lab at Florida Atlantic University. He told me he had a species of shrimp named after him, Thor dobkini. Unfortunately an overzealous exterminator spelled the end of the shrimp lab.
Does it really matter which shares you sell when harvesting gains? Seems to me that only the total gain, which is also the amount the basis is stepped up by, matters. It makes sense when loss harvesting to sell the shares with the largest losses (highest cost basis).
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I cleaned the tanks in my dad's shrimp lab at Florida Atlantic University. He told me he had a species of shrimp named after him, Thor dobkini. Unfortunately an overzealous exterminator spelled the end of the shrimp lab.
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I will be waiting until 70 and then Soc Sec will be a major portion of income.
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If you pay the taxes from your taxable account, you're reducing the tax drag on that account.
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Maybe hospitals should run their error-riddled bills through AI before sending them out.
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I live in the US. I was just making the point that national means one nation, not two.
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No, Mark, I wasn't joking. Ok then, why does the NHL have US teams?
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I was at a Big 10 school when there were 10!
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And why does the National Hockey League have teams from Canada?
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Does it really matter which shares you sell when harvesting gains? Seems to me that only the total gain, which is also the amount the basis is stepped up by, matters. It makes sense when loss harvesting to sell the shares with the largest losses (highest cost basis).
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As noted by the author, for 2026 there will be a charitable deduction for non-itemizers.
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