How to Use capital gain in a Sentence

capital gain

noun

• In a win for homeowners, the final bill preserved the existing rules that apply to capital gains tax on a primary residence.
  — Kathleen Pender, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Dec. 2017
• In a nutshell, the loophole allows money managers to treat earnings as capital gains instead of regular income, which comes with a lower tax rate.
  — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2017
• Another way is, going forward, corporations should be more profitable, and that should benefit the wealthy in the form of more dividends and capital gains.
  — Josh Boak, The Seattle Times, 14 Jan. 2018
• That budget requires the state to steer into a reserve fund any revenue exceeding $3.15 billion that comes from capital gains and bonuses.
  — Bloomberg.com, 8 Jan. 2018
• Investors typically have to pay taxes on their short-term capital gains at their individual income rates, which will top out at 37 percent next year.
  — chicagotribune.com, 21 Dec. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Those making more than $1 million a year would see investment earnings taxed the same as regular income instead of at the capital gains rate, which is lower.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
• If losses exceed capital gains, investors can subtract up to $3,000 a year from ordinary income.
  — Michelle Fox, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024