scary tax year ahead

I was just looking at my mutual fund family's estimated year-end distributions and they are quite large - like the late 1990s again. Its been a three year bull market and most early 200s losses have been absorbed. I've been gradually migrating to tax-advantaged investments, but not quick enough. Migration itself can trigger more taxes.

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Reply to
rick++
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Perhaps you can decline receiving the distributions. Then you would not have to pay any taxes on them.

Reply to
William Brenner

The internal assets have already been sold. Its a matter of assigning the gains to the shareholders as required by law.

The fund could be gifted to charity before the date of record. Then the gains would not appear.

Reply to
rick++

Aren't mutual funds REQUIRED to distribute their capital gains?

-- Barry Margolin, snipped-for-privacy@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA

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Reply to
Barry Margolin

Generally the rule is that if you decline something that you could have received, it will be taxable whether you actually receive it or not. Stu

Reply to
Stuart A. Bronstein

Well Barry, that's what happens when an amateur such as I offers what was intended to be a smartass sarcastic reply. My point was that paying a large tax bill is usually the result of having a large income, and is not a basis for complaint. (Before I am jumped upon again, I hasten to add that I favor having the taxes be as minimal as the law requires.)

Reply to
William Brenner

They are, and I'm sure William knows that. But I still chuckled at his tongue in cheek reply. ChEAr$, Harlan Lunsford, EA n LA

Reply to
Harlan Lunsford

OR, the OP could take some extra money, put it into an obviously failing business venture, close it up before year's end, and therefore have a writeoff to offset those gains. How about that?

ChEAr$, Harlan Lunsford, EA n LA

Reply to
Harlan Lunsford

Bingo! Thanks, Harlan. Your wisdom and perceptiveness continue to impress -- especially for one who does not read the NY Times. Bill

Reply to
William Brenner

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