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Alternative Minimum Tax Planning - Investments - Capital Gains
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Capital gains are income derived from the sale of property, most typically investment property. While capital gains are not directly an AMT preference item, they do have an impact on a taxpayer’s Alternative Minimum Tax, and, therefore, are an essential element of AMT planning. One real-life scenario with which the writer is familiar involved a retiree with what one would call a typical investment portfolio, including mutual funds, and it was solely a larger-than-usual year-end capital gain distribution from one mutual fund that threw that individual into the AMT.

For a little review, capital gain income historically has been taxed at a rate lower than the rate that applies to other, “ordinary,” income such as salaries and wages and interest income. This lower rate applies only to “long-term” capital gain (LTCG), which means the taxpayer must hold the property for over one year before selling it. Under current …

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Financial Management Strategies
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Today we are going to talk about one of the most important part of our lives, personal finance management strategies. With enormous amount of information on the web, sometimes it is hard to sort things out and to know exactly where to start and what to do.

We may look at other successful people and think they were born with the finance management skills. Nevertheless it is crucial for us to understand these wealthy people set great example for us. In order to obtain and to develop our own finance management skills, we have to act on our own.

Working as a financial coach and having experience of seeing various peoples’ financial backgrounds, it is easy to come to a certain conclusion that both positive and negative personal finance management has its roots in how the person was raised and what he or she was taught about money …

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Finance Tension for College Students: Ways to Deal
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Campus is packed with new and returning students, which means that college is in full swing. Classes are in session, professors are currently difficult students plus the Quad is buzzing with fall schedules; if the tension of college hasn’t hit yet, it almost certainly will pretty quickly. Finding a greater education is no quick feat, specially any time you add dollars to the equation. I assume college is definitely an invaluable experience – socially, professionally and intellectually.

Among one of the most stressful factors about college may be the funds element: every day spending, month-to-month living costs, and these really intimidating student loans. Do you understand what you happen to be going to perform together with your limited funds this semester? If not, here are a number of tricks to aid you make it to Christmas (or summer time) without the need of investing quite a bit of …

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Understanding The Forex - What Is Position Trading?
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Position trading refers to the style of trading in which trades are taken and held for a considerable period of time, anywhere from several days to several months. The majority of long term investors practice this style of trading because of its many benefits. Position traders usually do not bother themselves about fluctuations, which in most cases tend to be short-lived. Investors using this style of trading study long-term time charts such as weekly and monthly charts to identify potential trade opportunities.

When practicing position trading, you are not entering a position in the market and quitting it at the end of the trading day. Position trading involves entering a position with a longer time perspective. Position traders aim to identify trade opportunities in financial instruments where the technical trends and/or the fundamental analysis of the instrument imply a large movement in price that is about to take …

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Is Knowing Your Credit Score Really That Important?
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You see the ads on TV and hear them all day on the radio asking if you know your credit score. They all want you to use their service and get copies of your credit report and score. But is it really necessary? Do you really need to know your FICO score? Here’s a closer look…

If you have any kind of credit history at all, either through credit cards, loans, mortgages, etc., then you will also have a credit score. These scores will range from a low of 300 all the up to 850. Naturally, the higher the numbers the better.

Your scores are used by lenders and other financial companies to determine whether or not you qualify for things such as a new car loan, a credit card, a lease on that new apartment, or even a new job you have applied for.

Yes, employers have …

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