Nice find, sprstpd, thanks. Ultimately this may be something I'll need to consult with my old tax firm about to get their professional perspective as it relates to NM, and get advice on how to respond appropriately.
NM isn't mentioned much as a hotbed of activity for hedge or other money mgmt businesses. Maybe you hit on the reason! :eek:![]()
Sorry for not properly understanding your situation, but you had not stated that as a trader you had made the mark to market selection.
All the traders that I know/have known are Schedule D and Form 6781 types.
Mark to market treatment makes no sense for me or any of the traders that I have known.
"capital income" is long term or short term capital gains as opposed to ordinary income.
You are going to have to contact The New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Dept and find out what their policies are for traders in your sitouation.
Surely. And what worries me a bit is that NM is not as 'fashion-forward' as IL either (where I'm more familiar with), in regards to contemporary tax applications and state provisions for the trading industry. The trading industry and it's interests are much better represented at the state level in IL as well as helping to fight for precedents in tax courts.
Dude, The CME is in Chicago. Way back when, it was Dan Rostenkowsky who was part of the original Daley machine/regime that got the futures industry it's 60/40 tax treatment as a permanent (until it isn't ) part of the IRS tax code!


Dude, The CME is in Chicago. Way back when, it was Dan Rostenkowsky who was part of the original Daley machine/regime that got the futures industry it's 60/40 tax treatment as a permanent (until it isn't ) part of the IRS tax code!
Haha, that's a good example.
NM? Well, we have blue meth.![]()
You are going to have to contact The New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Dept and find out what their policies are for traders in your sitouation.
Keep in mind that the 60/40 treatment for futures didn't come out of thin air. It was the compromise reached for ending the very favorable treatment of tax straddles.
If the CME and other exchanges did't have lobbyists they would be taxed and regulated to death.
