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Finance: What is Ordinary Income v Long-Term Gain Income? 2 Views


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What is ordinary income versus long-term gain income? Hit play to find out.

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finance a la shmoop what is ordinary income versus long-term gain income ah

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tax policy it changes like the seasons if the seasons were always mean and [Seasons of the year appear]

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nasty well generally speaking throughout modern US tax history there have been

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two types of taxes those levied on your wages or personal income that you [US tax types appear]

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actively earned usually at a relatively high tax rate and those taxes levied on

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gains from investments or passive income you know like stocks that went up and

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then we're sold for cash or land that was bought cared for appreciated in [Land stamped with sold]

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value and then sold for cash well the two big keys in differentiating these

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concepts revolve around a the type of income that's coming in I heat if you

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hauled bricks to earn the money it's ordinary actively earned income [Bricks land into wheelbarrow]

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plain-vanilla work-related and be that money can be made from investment gains

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and there's a curveball here in that if the gains were realized or the [Man hit by a baseball]

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investment was turned into profits in the form of cash I eat you sold the land

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for cash not in barter for another piece of land and you did it in less than one

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year after buying it well then the tax rate applied will be the ordinary income [Tax rate table appears]

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level the higher level in part because well if you turned it into profits so

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quickly well the government figures it was kind of your job and you were

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working it pretty hard in that less than one year time period and so you actively

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earned the money and to punish you for working hard they tax you at a higher

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rate like the brick hauling ordinary income is earned rather than passive [Bricks falling and dollar signs appear]

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long term investing gains the differences can be massive in a blue

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state the marginal ordinary income rate post Trump hovers somewhere a bit beyond [Blue states appear in US]

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50 percent assuming no incremental city tax piled on top hello Manhattan we're

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looking at you the long-term gain rate hovers around 25 percent and in a red

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state with a no state tech long-term gain hovers around 20 percent and change

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there's Obamacare thrown in there so on and so if you had a gain of a

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million bucks on a security you've held 364 days and you sell it that day while

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you keep a bit less than 500 grand if you wait another day or two before

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selling while you keep more like 750 grand from that million yeah it's a

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delta of a quarter of your entire investment courtesy of qualifying for

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long-term gain treatment rather than short-term so just like the conclusion [A corvette appears]

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of a really good Saturday night you always want to try to go long-term in

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instead of short

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