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Wash Loss Sales

Wash Loss Sales

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Wash Loss Sales

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The U.S. federal tax code contains wash sale and short sale rules, which prevent a U.S. taxpayer from realizing loss deductions or long-term capital gain benefits through the use of wash sales or certain short sales. Wash sale rules are complex, however, the following is a greatly abbreviated summary:

 

Wash Sale Rule - You are a private investor and you purchase, or buy an option to purchase, a security within a period extending from 30 days before to 30 days after the sale of a substantially identical security.  The sale transaction is a "wash sale". You are not allowed to deduct any loss on the sale transaction.

 

The complete set of situations subject to wash sale rules is rather complex.  Captools/net attempts to detect the most common of these situations. When it does detect a wash sale, Captools/net automatically adjusts the cost bases to reflect that losses are disallowed.

 

Wash Days - For wash sale cost bases adjustment to automatically occur, "Wash Days" must be properly specified in the tax rate records, e.g.,:

 

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