How to Use capital gain in a Sentence

capital gain

noun
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  • The well-off got cuts in the capital gains tax and the wealth tax.
    — Cole Stangler, TIME, 8 July 2024
  • If an investor buys a share for $3 and sells it for $5, the capital gain is $2.
    — Laura Saunders and Richard Rubin, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
  • If the daughter sells it for that amount, no capital gain tax would be owed.
    — Liz Weston, oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2020
  • The top rate for long-term capital gains was left untouched at 20%.
    — Claire Zillman, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Indeed, that has long been seen as a flaw in our capital gains tax law.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Those sales will only be taxed as a long-term capital gain at a 20% tax rate.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 16 Nov. 2021
  • The Senate left the short-term capital gains rate unchanged.
    — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2023
  • Proceeds from the deal could then be treated as a capital gain, the thinking goes.
    — Sabrina Willmer, Fortune, 30 June 2021
  • That's going to five us a lot of capital gains revenue.
    — Fox News, 24 Sep. 2018
  • These numbers are just to give you an idea of how capital gains taxes work.
    — Liz Weston Of Nerdwallet, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2024
  • As with the sale of any art investment, that capital gain or loss would be taxed as a collectible.
    — Kelli María Korducki, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The top rate for long-term capital gains was left untouched at 20 percent.
    — Bloomberg.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • But then the bubble burst, leading to a sharp drop in capital gains tax revenue.
    — Jeff Stein, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2023
  • But that was a huge drop in capital gains revenue from the previous year.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2024
  • Big gains build up because the investor doesn’t want to sell and pay capital gains taxes.
    — Liz Weston, latimes.com, 24 June 2018
  • Democrats, however, vowed to oppose the change to how capital gains are taxed.
    — Fox News, 31 July 2018
  • That allows them to be taxed at a low capital gains rate rather than a much higher income tax rate.
    — John Fauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Nov. 2017
  • The first seven years of profits are supposed to be taxed by the U.S. government at the capital gains rate of up to 23.8 percent.
    — Jesse Drucker, New York Times, 28 May 2024
  • Currently, the top rate for long-term capital gains, or assets owned for more than one year, is 20%.
    — Kate Dore, Cfp®, CNBC, 20 July 2024
  • That $3,000 capital gain would be subject to the short-term capital gains rate.
    — CBS News, 26 Jan. 2022
  • For households worth more than $1 million, capital gains would be taxed at the same rate as their wage income.
    — Courtney Subramanian, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023
  • If, further down the road, the buyer decided to sell the NFT, they would be required to report the sale as a capital gain or loss.
    — Kelli María Korducki, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Revenue from a sales tax fluctuates far less than the tax on capital gains.
    — sacbee, 9 July 2018
  • Avoid holding funds that spin out hefty capital gains in this account, though.
    — Darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 20 Nov. 2024
  • The publishing market was also spurred by a 2006 change to the tax code that made sale income a capital gain.
    — Billboard, 18 Feb. 2021
  • The rainy day fund takes capital gains that spike above a normal threshold and puts that money into a rainy day fund.
    — sacbee, 9 July 2018
  • The investment wouldn’t be taxed on future capital gains if held for 10 years.
    — Houston Chronicle, 13 Sep. 2019
  • One of the purposes of the estate tax, then, was to ensure that the government gets a piece of these untaxed capital gains.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 2 Nov. 2017
  • One clear target of the new tax was investment professionals who rack up capital gains.
    — Paul Kiel, ProPublica, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The second letter urges Smith to eliminate the capital gains tax on inflation as part of legislation in 2025.
    — Brett Samuels, The Hill, 23 Dec. 2024

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