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December trading, Wash Sales Rule
- Thread starter dholliday
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Quote from dholliday:
Is it true that closing all your positions and not trading during the month of December solves Wash Sales Rule tax problems?
Thanks,
David
As long as your last trade on any stock that might have a wash sale applied to it is greater than 30 days prior to December 31 you should be all set. I did this in my IB account â I had wash sale issues last year with my QQQ trades . This year I made sure I had no wash sales going into December and for any loss I took on a stock in December I would not trade it in January until the wash sale period had expired. So the simple answer to your question is should not have any wash sales if closed out your positions on 11/30 and did not trade them in December.
I'm not following the responses here.
This would do nothing for any wash sales he had any other time of the year.
This would do nothing for any wash sales he had any other time of the year.
Quote from musicman:
As long as your last trade on any stock that might have a wash sale applied to it is greater than 30 days prior to December 31 you should be all set. I did this in my IB account â I had wash sale issues last year with my QQQ trades . This year I made sure I had no wash sales going into December and for any loss I took on a stock in December I would not trade it in January until the wash sale period had expired. So the simple answer to your question is should not have any wash sales if closed out your positions on 11/30 and did not trade them in December.
Quote from sledgeyum:
I'm not following the responses here.
This would do nothing for any wash sales he had any other time of the year.
All that matters here is that he has no wash sales remaining for Tax purposes. Wash sales early in the year are absorbed into future trades . If you have no trades the last 30 days of the calendar year you have no wash sales to carry forward into the next year. Pretty simple to understand.
Hi
I'm not understanding these other responses here.
If you sell a stock at a loss, you need to wait 30/31 days, if you want to keep that in your capital losses, to get the tax deduction.
If you enter before the 30/31 days, that previous sale at a loss is now washed out, and no longer counts as a capital loss.
I'm not understanding these other responses here.
If you sell a stock at a loss, you need to wait 30/31 days, if you want to keep that in your capital losses, to get the tax deduction.
If you enter before the 30/31 days, that previous sale at a loss is now washed out, and no longer counts as a capital loss.
Quote from dholliday:
Is it true that closing all your positions and not trading during the month of December solves Wash Sales Rule tax problems?
Thanks,
David